journey. The Egyptian kings of twelfth dynasty worked copper and turquoise mines in peninsula of Sinai. Afterward disused until eighteenth dynasty. Old roads left. See App-50. on the forty years' wandering; and note on Numbers 33:1.
children. sons.
Sin. Hebrew. bush.
Sinai. Bush of Jehovah. Sinai mentioned thirty-one times in Pentateuch, only four times in rest of Old Testament (Judges 5:5.Nehemiah 9:13.Psalms 68:8; Psalms 68:17); in New Testament four times (Acts 7:30; Acts 7:38; Galatians 1:4; Galatians 1:24, Gal 1:26).
fifteenth day. See App-50.