Numbers 33:6
And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et de Soccoth venerunt in Etham, quæ est in extremis finibus solitudinis.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- καὶ ἀπῆραν ἐκ Σοκχὼθ καὶ παρενέβαλον εἰς Βουθάν, ὅ ἐστιν μέρος τῆς ἐρήμου.
- Hebrew (WLC)
- וַיִּסְע֖וּ מִסֻּכֹּ֑ת וַיַּחֲנ֣וּ בְאֵתָ֔ם אֲשֶׁ֖ר בִּקְצֵ֥ה הַמִּדְבָּֽר
Haydock's commentary
Soccoth, the second station. (Haydock)
Etham. Septuagint, "Butham," the Butum of Herodotus, (ii. 75,) situated in a plain.
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
Origen Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, Chapter XXIV
“These things were done in Bethabara, beyond Jordan, where John was baptizing.” We are aware of the reading which is found in almost all the copies, “These things were done in Bethany.” This appears, moreover, to have been the reading at an earlier time; and in Heracleon we read “Bethany.” We are convinced, however, that we should not read “Bethany,” but “Bethabara.” We have visited the places to enquire as to the footsteps of Jesus and His disciples, and of the prophets. Now, Bethany, as the same evangelist tells us, was the town of Lazarus, and of Martha and Mary; it is fifteen stadia from Jerusalem, and the river Jordan is about a hundred and eighty stadia distant from it. Nor is there any other place of the same name in the neighbourhood of the Jordan, but they say that Bethabara is pointed out on the banks of the Jordan, and that John is said to have baptized there. …