KJV King James Version
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
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Exodus 19:2
For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
After they had set out from Rephidim, they entered the Wilderness of Sinai, and Israel camped there in front of the mountain.
WEB World English Bible
When they had departed from Rephidim, and had come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mountain.
ASV American Standard Version
And when they were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the wilderness of Sinai, they encamped in the wilderness; and there Israel encamped before the mount.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and they journey from Rephidim, and enter the wilderness of Sinai, and encamp in the wilderness; and Israel encampeth there before the mount.
Surrounding context — Exodus 19
1 In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they [into] the wilderness of Sinai.
2 For they were departed from Rephidim, and were come [to] the desert of Sinai, and had pitched in the wilderness; and there Israel camped before the mount.
3 And Moses went up unto God, and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;
4 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and [how] I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.
5 Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth [is] mine:
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיִּסְע֣וּH5265 · na.sato set outמֵרְפִידִ֗יםH7508 · re.phi.dimRephidimוַיָּבֹ֙אוּ֙H935 · boto come (in): comeמִדְבַּ֣רH4057 · mid.barmouthסִינַ֔יH5514 · si.naySinaiוַֽיַּחֲנ֖וּH2583 · cha.nahto campבַּמִּדְבָּ֑רH4057 · mid.barmouthוַיִּֽחַן־H2583 · cha.nahto campשָׁ֥םH8033 · shamthereיִשְׂרָאֵ֖לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelנֶ֥גֶדH5048 · ne.gedbeforeהָהָֽר׃H2022 · harmountain: mount
Cross-references
Exodus 17:1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and [there was] no water for the people to drink.Exodus 3:1Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.Exodus 3:12And he said, Certainly I will be with thee; and this [shall be] a token unto thee, that I have sent thee: When thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serve God upon this mountain.Exodus 18:5And Jethro, Moses’ father in law, came with his sons and his wife unto Moses into the wilderness, where he encamped at the mount of God:Exodus 17:8Then came Amalek, and fought with Israel in Rephidim.Acts 7:38This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina, and [with] our fathers: who received the lively oracles to give unto us:Galatians 4:24Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.Acts 7:30And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.
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