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The Exodus

Numbers 33 · c. 1446–1406 BC

    The ExodusExodus 12 – Numbers 33 · c. 1446–1406 BC. The line follows the southern route to Jebel Musa, the traditional identification of Sinai and not a settled one; the northern reconstructions put both the mountain and the sea crossing elsewhere. Stations are drawn only where a site has long been identified with them — Marah, Elim, Rephidim, Hazeroth, Mount Hor — and the many stations of Numbers 33 that cannot be placed, with Etham, Migdol, Pi-hahiroth and Baal-zephon, are left off rather than guessed at. Heshbon is left off for a different reason: its site is not in doubt, but it stands so close to Mount Nebo that at this scale the two names cannot both be read. Shur, Sin, Paran and Zin are the wildernesses of Exodus and Numbers, given as single words for room. The thirty-eight years are not drawn: Israel spent them in the wilderness about Kadesh, and their itinerary cannot be laid on the ground. The numbered discs give the order of the march from Rameses to the plains of Moab; number 3 is the crossing of the sea, a stop in the account rather than a place on the ground. Mt Sinai Mt Hor Mt Nebo NILE JORDAN NILE DELTA EGYPT GOSHEN SHUR SIN PARAN ZIN THE NEGEB CANAAN EDOM MOAB AMMON MIDIAN ARABIA THE GREAT SEA THE RED SEA SALT SEA Rameses Zoan Pithom Succoth On Memphis Marah Elim Rephidim Hazeroth Kadesh-barnea Ezion-geber Punon Dibon Abel-shittim Jericho Arad Hebron Beersheba Gaza Ashkelon Egypt to SinaiExodus 12–19Sinai to KadeshNumbers 10–13Kadesh to MoabNumbers 20–22Start and finishSummitHighlandStippled ground is desert 250255075100MILES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

    The Exodus

    Exodus 12 – Numbers 33 · c. 1446–1406 BC

    The line follows the southern route to Jebel Musa, the traditional identification of Sinai and not a settled one; the northern reconstructions put both the mountain and the sea crossing elsewhere. Stations are drawn only where a site has long been identified with them — Marah, Elim, Rephidim, Hazeroth, Mount Hor — and the many stations of Numbers 33 that cannot be placed, with Etham, Migdol, Pi-hahiroth and Baal-zephon, are left off rather than guessed at. Heshbon is left off for a different reason: its site is not in doubt, but it stands so close to Mount Nebo that at this scale the two names cannot both be read. Shur, Sin, Paran and Zin are the wildernesses of Exodus and Numbers, given as single words for room. The thirty-eight years are not drawn: Israel spent them in the wilderness about Kadesh, and their itinerary cannot be laid on the ground. The numbered discs give the order of the march from Rameses to the plains of Moab; number 3 is the crossing of the sea, a stop in the account rather than a place on the ground.

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