OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 16:1

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They took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt.

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Verse 1. Sin, after they had encamped on the Red Sea. Numbers 33:10. The 33d station was also in the desert of Sin, or Cades. But that is far remote from this desert. Numbers 20:1. Calmet.—Month of May, Jiar. Their provisions lasted a whole month. On their failure, they presently have recourse to murmurs.

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