The Exodus, Rameses to Succoth


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The LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, On the 15th day of the 1st month at midnight. The children of Israel started their Exodus journey from Rameses to Succoth after the Passover.


(The Hebrew day began and ended at 6 pm.)

 

(Exo 12:29 KJV)   And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt , from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

  (Exo 12:37 KJV)   And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.



(Num 33:3 KJV)   And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the Passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

(Num 33:4 KJV)   For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.

(Num 33:5 KJV)   And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth

 

  Rameses = Child of the sun              Succoth = booths

The children of Israel , journeyed 23 miles,
and camped at Succoth, City of tents.

After Moses;left Pharaoh

at Zoan or Rameses,

  he came south to the center of Goshen.

(Psa 78:12 KJV)
  Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.

(Psa 78:43 KJV)
  How he had wrought his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan:

Succoth is in the Wadi Tumilat--

the last section of inhabited land before the desert, near the modern city  of Ismailia .

The ancient canal extending northward from Lake Timsah to the Mediterranean. This could not be crossed at any spot except for the main trade routes

There was likewise a canal on the southern side of Goshen , extending from Lake Timsah to a branch of the Nile River . The canals where 150 to 200 feet wide by 10 to 17 feet deep.

Succoth is identified as
Tell el-Maskhutah, ten miles east
of Pithom.
They baked unleavened cakes



(Exo 12:39 KJV) And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any vicual.



In the foreground lie the fragments of a fallen granite statue, the head and face of which are intact. The other illustration is taken from the temple end of the excavations.

"Scientific American Supplement"

A Buried City Of The Exodus

The uppermost view shows a portion of the diggings; a workman is bringing up a barrow-load of soil from one of the deep store chambers which the Children of Israel built more than three thousand years ago.

Succoth

 

Protection  and  Guidance

Exo 13:21   And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night:

Exo 13:22   He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.

Psa 78:14   In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the night with a light of fire.