harnessed] Or, by five in a ranke. Joshua 1:14. It is not like they had much armour, besides their staves, unlesse when the armed Egyptians (pursuing them were drowned) they recovered any of their armes for a spoile, when they saw them lye dead upon the shore, Chap. 14. 30. And yet they might be allowed some armes for defence of that part of the country where they dwelled from the incursions of enemies, and might borrow armes, as well as other things of the Egyptians. The word Chamushim here used, hath the signification of five in it, and so it is taken for five in ranks, or for girding up their loynes, at the fift rib: the meaning is, that they went not out of Egypt (in a tumultuary manner) like fearefull fugitives, but trussed up, or girded up, and going on in an orderly manner, like a well ranked armie, so that none gave impediment to another.