SEV Biblia, Chapter 13:20
Y partidos de Sucot, asentaron campo en Etam, a la entrada del desierto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Exodus 13:20
Verse 20. Encamped in Etham.] As for the reasons assigned on ver. 17, God would not lead the Israelites by the way of the Philistines' country, he directed them towards the wilderness of Shur, chap. xv. 22, upon the edge or extremity of which, next to Egypt, at the bottom of the Arabian Gulf, lay Etham, which is the second place of encampment mentioned. See the extracts from Dr. Shaw at the end of Exodus. See note on "chap. xl. 38".
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-20 - There were two ways from Egypt to Canaan. One was only a few days journey; the other was much further about, through the wilderness, an that was the way in which God chose to lead his people Israel. The Egyptians were to be drowned in the Red sea; the Israelites were to be humbled and proved in the wilderness. God's way is the right way though it seems about. If we think he leads not his people the neares way, yet we may be sure he leads them the best way, and so it wil appear when we come to our journey's end. The Philistines were powerfu enemies; it was needful that the Israelites should be prepared for the wars of Canaan, by passing through the difficulties of the wilderness Thus God proportions his people's trials to their strength, 1Co 10:13 They went up in good order. They went up in five in a rank, some; i five bands, so others, which it seems rather to their faith and hope that God would bring them to Canaan, in expectation of which the carried these bones with them while in the desert.
Original Hebrew
ויסעו 5265 מסכת 5523 ויחנו 2583 באתם 864 בקצה 7097 המדבר׃ 4057
