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After God led the Israelites through the Red Sea
This begins a new event. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-newevent)
This was the same mountain where Moses had seen the burning bush
This is background information about the mountain to which the Israelites traveled. (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/writing-background)
burning bush
Before Moses returned to Egypt, God had spoken to him from a shrub that was on fire, but that was not burned up by the fire. See 09:12.
set up their tents
The Israelites had to travel a great distance from Egypt to the Promised Land. So they took tents with them so that they could set them up as shelters and sleep in them along the way. Some languages could translate this as, “hung their tents.”
the base of the mountain
This could be translated as, “bottom of the mountain.” This refers to the area of land that is located next to the place where the ground starts to slant upward to form a mountain.