...possess the land I promised to your fore-Jathers to give to their ^posterity. Deut. i. 6 — 9.) 11. On the twentieth day of the second month, of the second year, after their exit from Egypt, the cloud rose up from off' the tabernacle, 12. And removed from the wilderness...

...came to Sinai on the fifteenth of the third month, in the first year of the exit, and they left Sinai on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year ; so that they" stayed here eleven mouths and five days. * Exodus xix, 11. » Chap, xxiv, 4. 1 Ver....

...breaking up, and marching, was accurately settled; and the whole constitution of the state was completed. On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year after their departure from Egypt they broke up from Horeb, and proceeded by short marches through the...

...the beginning of the third month of the first year of their going forth ; and they departed thence on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year: see chap. x, 11, 12. — Rosenm. 16. See chap. xi, 34. The Israelites spent three days in coming hither...

...breaking up, and marching, was accurately settled ; and the whole constitution of the state was completed. On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year after their departure from Egypt, the Israelites were ordered to break up their encampment, and proceed...

...end of this period. The Israelites still remain at Sinai till chapter 11, where it is mentioned, that on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, they were directed to remove and advance towards the Promised Land. They proceed as far as Kadesh on...

...tables of the law. God renews them. Leaving Sinai, the Israelites enter the Wilderness of Paran (F), on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year from the time they left Egypt. In this wilderness they spent the next thirty-eight years of their forty...

...the sojourning of the Israelites among the mountains of Sinai was a few days more than eleven months. On the twentieth day of the second month of the second year after their departure from Egypt, the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony,...

...the twentieth day of the second month in the first year. Now, as the departure from Sinai took place on the twentieth day of the second month of the second year, the stay at Sinai would have been exactly one year. This coincidence was probably originally just as accidental...

...the way; and the settling of the cloud upon the tabernacle, was again the signal for them to encamp. On the twentieth day of the second month, of the second year after their departure, the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony, and the children...