VVIldernesse of] Not immediately from Elim, (the next place before mentioned) for here was the eighth station, and the seventh is omitted, because there is no memorable matter observed of it. Sin] Sin is the common name of the whole space of the desart, from Elim to Mount Sinai; yet here it is particularly taken for that part of it, where the Israelites had their eighth mansion, or pitching of their Tents: and it was called Sin, (as some conceive) from a Citie of Egypt of that name, Ezekiel 30:16. The desart of Sin, Nm. 20. 1. is not this desart, but another called sometimes Cades, towards which, this part of the nesse coasted. fifteenth] In respect of the second moneth, it was the fifteenth day, but the thirtieth from their departure out of Epypt.