Numbers 33:3-5

Contemporary English Version

^3-4Israel left the Egyptian city of Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month.^[a] This was the day after the Lord had punished Egypt's gods by killing the first-born sons in every Egyptian family. So while the Egyptians were burying the bodies, they watched the Israelites proudly^[b] leave their country.

⁵After the Israelites left Rameses, they camped at Succoth,

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Footnotes

33.3,4 first month: See the note at 9.3.
33.3,4 proudly: Or “bravely.”

Numbers 33:3-5

New International Version

³The Israelites set out^(A) from Rameses^(B) on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover.^(C) They marched out defiantly^(D) in full view of all the Egyptians, ⁴who were burying all their firstborn,^(E) whom the Lord had struck down among them; for the Lord had brought judgment^(F) on their gods.^(G)