OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 13:20

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They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.

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Verse 20. Etham. A city on the banks of the Red Sea, giving its name to one of the gulphs, which the Greeks called after the city of Heropolis. Plin. vi. 29. The Septuagint translate, “They encamped at Othon, which is near the desert;” and (Numbers 32:6,) the Hebrews marched three days in the desert of Buthan, before they arrived at Mara.

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