Parashat Masei

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Masei – Journeys
Number 33:1 – 36:13

  • Ramses – Raamses or Rameses = “child of the sun”; departed 1st month on 15th day of the month, after the Passover;

  • Succoth – “booths”

  • Etham – “with them: their plowshare”; 3 day journey and pitched in Marah

  • Pi-hahiroth – “place where sedge grows”

  • Migdol – “tower”

  • Marah – “bitter”

  • Elim – “palms”; 12 springs; 70 date palms

  • Dophkah – “knocking”

  • Alush – “I will knead (bread)”

  • Rephidim – “rests” or “stays” or “resting places”

  • Sinai – Wilderness — “thorny”

  • Kibroth-hattaavah – “graves of lust”

  • Hazeroth – “settlement”

  • Rithmah – “heath”

  • Rimmon-perez – “pomegranate of the breach”

  • Libnah – “pavement”

  • Rissah – “ruin”

  • Kehelathah – “assembly”

  • Shepher – “beauty”

  • Haradah – “fear”

  • Makheloth – “place of assembly”

  • Tahath – “station”

  • Terah – “station”

  • Mithkah – “sweetness”

  • Hashmonah – “fatness”

  • Moseroth – Mosera or Moseroth = “bonds”

  • Bene-jaakan – “sons of twisting”

  • Hor-hagidgad – “cavern of Gidgad”

  • Jotbathah – Jotbath or Jotbathah = “pleasantness”

  • Abronah – Ebronah = “passage”

  • Ezion-geber – “backbone of a man”

  • Zin (Wilderness) – “flat”; which is Kadesh – “holy”

  • Mt. Hor – “mountain” / Edge of Edom – Aaron died here; 123 years old

  • Zalmonah – “shady”

  • Punon – “darkness”

  • Oboth – border of Moab – “waterskins”

  • Ijeabarim – “ruins of Abarim”

  • Dibon-gad – “wasting”

  • Almon-diblathaim – “concealing the two cakes”

  • Nebo “prophet” – Mountains of Abarim – “regions beyond”

  • Plains of Moab – “of his father”, by Jordan – “descender” near Jericho – “its moon”

  • Beth-jeshimoth – “house of the desolation” – unto Abel-shittim – “meadow of acacias”