Numbers 32–33

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of ^aJazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle; ²the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying, ³Ataroth, and ^bDibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and ^cNebo, and Beon, ⁴even the country ^dwhich the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle: ⁵wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan. ⁶And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here? ⁷And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? ⁸Thus did your fathers, ^ewhen I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. ⁹For when they went up unto ^fthe valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them. ^10gAnd the Lord’s anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying, ^11hSurely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, ⁱfrom twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware ^kunto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: ¹²save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the ^lKenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: ^mfor they have wholly followed the Lord. ¹³And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them ⁿwander in the wilderness forty years, until ^oall the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed. ¹⁴And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel. ¹⁵For if ye ^pturn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people. ¹⁶And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: ¹⁷but ^qwe ourselves will go ready ^rarmed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. ^18sWe will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. ¹⁹For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; ^tbecause our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward. ²⁰And ^uMoses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war, ²¹and will go all of you ^warmed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath ^xdriven out his enemies from before him, ²²and the land be subdued before the Lord: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. ²³But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure ^yyour sin will find you out. ^24zBuild ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth. ²⁵And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth. ²⁶Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead: ²⁷but thy servants will pass over, every man ^aarmed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith. ²⁸So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and ^bJoshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel: ²⁹and Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession: ³⁰but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. ³¹And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do. ³²We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours. ³³And ^cMoses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, ^dthe kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.

³⁴And the children of Gad built ^eDibon, and ^eAtaroth, and ^fAroer, ³⁵and Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah, ³⁶and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, ^gfenced cities: and folds for sheep. ³⁷And the children of Reuben built ^hHeshbon, and ⁱElealeh, and Kirjathaim, ³⁸and ⁱNebo, and Baal-^jmeon, (^ktheir names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded. ³⁹And the children of ^lMachir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it. ⁴⁰And Moses ^mgave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein. ⁴¹And ⁿJair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them ^oHavoth-jair. ⁴²And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the ^pvillages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

XXXIII.These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. ²And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the Lord: and these are their journeys according to their goings out. ³And they ^adeparted from Rameses in ^bthe first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out ^cwith a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. ⁴For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, ^dwhich the Lord had smitten among them: ^eupon their gods also the Lord executed judgments. ⁵And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and pitched in ^fSuccoth. ⁶And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in ^gEtham, which is in the edge of the wilderness. ⁷And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto ^hPi-hahiroth, which is before ^hBaal-zephon: and they pitched before ^hMigdol. ⁸And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and ⁱpassed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and ^jwent three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah. ⁹And they removed from Marah, and came unto ^kElim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there. ¹⁰And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea. ¹¹And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the ^lwilderness of Sin. ¹²And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. ¹³And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. ¹⁴And they removed from Alush, and encamped at ^mRephidim, where was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the ⁿwilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at ^oKibroth-hattaavah. ¹⁷And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at ^pHazeroth. ¹⁸And they ^qdeparted from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah. ¹⁹And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez. ²⁰And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah. ²¹And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah. ²²And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. ²³And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. ²⁴And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah. ²⁵And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. ²⁶And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. ²⁷And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. ²⁸And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. ²⁹And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. ³⁰And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at ^rMoseroth. ³¹And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in ^rBene-jaakan. ³²And they removed from ^sBene-jaakan, and encamped at ^tHor-hagidgad. ³³And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in ^tJotbathah. ³⁴And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah. ³⁵And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at ^uEzion-gaber. ³⁶And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitched in the ^wwilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. ³⁷And they removed from ^xKadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. ³⁸And Aaron the priest went up into ^ymount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹And Aaron was ^zan hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. ⁴⁰And ^aking Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. ⁴¹And they departed from mount ^bHor, and pitched in Zalmonah. ⁴²And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon. ⁴³And they departed from Punon, and pitched in ^cOboth. ⁴⁴And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in ^dIje-abarim, in the border of Moab. ⁴⁵And they departed from Iim, and pitched in ^eDibon-gad. ⁴⁶And they removed from ^eDibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.^{f 47}And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, ^gand pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. ⁴⁸And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in ^hthe plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. ⁴⁹And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto Abel-ⁱshittim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰And the Lord spake unto Moses in ^hthe plains of Moab by…