Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 33:10

And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.

STAT. VI.

Verse 10. Encamped by the RED SEA.] It is difficult to assign the place of this encampment, as the Israelites were now on their way to Mount Sinai, which lay considerably to the east of Elim, and consequently farther from the sea than the former station. It might be called by the Red Sea, as the Israelites had it, as the principal object, still in view. This station however is mentioned nowhere else. By the Red Sea we are not to understand a sea, the waters of which are red, or the sand red, or any thing else about or in it red; for nothing of this kind appears. It is called in Hebrew yam suph, which signifies the weedy sea. The Septuagint rendered the original by , and the Vulgate after it by mare rubrum, and the European versions followed these, and, in opposition to etymology and reason, translated it the Red Sea. See Clarke on Ex 10:19.

Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible

10. encamped by the Red SeaTheroad from Wady Ghurundel leads into the interior, in consequence of ahigh continuous ridge which excludes all view of the sea. At themouth of Wady-et-Tayibeh, after about three days’ march, it opensagain on a plain along the margin of the Red Sea. The minute accuracyof the Scripture narrative, in corresponding so exactly with thegeographical features of this region, is remarkably shown indescribing the Israelites as proceeding by the only practicable routethat could be taken. This plain, where they encamped, was the Desertof Sin (see on Ex 16:1).

Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. This encampment, is omitted in the book of Exodus, see Ex 16:1 this part or arm of the Red sea, whither they came, was six miles from Elim.

Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible

10. Encamped by the Red Sea Probably at Ras Abu Zenimeh, a flat, sandy strip of ground. “This is not given in Exodus as a station, but its distance from Elim, sixteen miles, indicates it as a fair day’s march from that point. I could imagine how the tired multitude felt, as, after a toilsome march through a net of low, barren hills and dry wadies, the sight of a broad, level beach and of the soft, quiet sea unexpectedly opened before them.” Dr. Ridgaway.

Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments