John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Numbers 33:3
And they departed from Rameses ,.... A city in Egypt, where the children of Israel, a little before their departure, seem to have been gathered together in a body, in order to march out all together, as they did. This place the Targum of Jonathan calls Pelusium. Dr. Shaw F1 Travels, p. 307. Ed. 2. thinks it might be Cairo, from whence they set forward; see Exodus 12:37 and it was in the first month ; in the month Nisan, as the same Targum, or Abib, which was appointed the first... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Numbers 33:1-49
This is a review and brief rehearsal of the travels of the children of Israel through the wilderness. It was a memorable history and well worthy to be thus abridged, and the abridgment thus preserved, to the honour of God that led them and for the encouragement of the generations that followed. Observe here, I. How the account was kept: Moses wrote their goings out, Num. 33:2. When they began this tedious march, God ordered him to keep a journal or diary, and to insert in it all the remarkable... read more