Why does the Torah insert the (otherwise superfluous) word "Eileh Mas'ei B'nei Yisrael ... Va'yisa'u"?
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Rashi:"Eileh Mas'ei" refers to the order in which they traveled,
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whereas ?Va'yisa'u? informs us that they traveled on the same day that the Cloud rose, on the twentieth of Iyar.
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