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John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 33:5

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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, etc.] Or Pelusium, as the same Targum again: and pitched in Succoth: where, as the same paraphrase says, they were covered with the clouds of glory, suggesting that to be the reason of its name; but that was rather because of the booths or tents the Israelites erected, pitched, and dwelt in, during their abode there: this, according to Bunting f478, was eight miles from Rameses; according to whose computation, for want of a better guide, the distances of the several stations from each other will be given.
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