And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Etham. A city on the banks of the Red Sea, giving its name to one of the gulphs, which the Greeks called after the city of Hero polis. (Pliny, Natural History vi. 29.) The Septuagint translate, "They encamped at Othon, which is near the desert "and (Numbers xxxii. 6,) the Hebrews marched three days in the desert of Buthan, before they arrived at Mara.
