Numbers 33:37–56

³⁷They journeyed from Kadesh and camped at ^aMount Hor, ^bat the edge of the land of Edom.

^38aThen Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the ¹command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month.

³⁹Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰Now the Canaanite, the king of ^aArad ¹who lived in the ²Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹Then they journeyed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

⁴²They journeyed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

⁴³They journeyed from Punon and camped at ^aOboth.

⁴⁴They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, at the border of Moab.

⁴⁵They journeyed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶They journeyed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷They journeyed from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of ^aAbarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸They journeyed from the mountains of Abarim and ^acamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

⁴⁹They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as ^aAbel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Law of Possessing the Land

⁵⁰Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

⁵¹“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘^aWhen you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and ^adestroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;

^53aand you shall take possession of the land and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.

⁵⁴‘^aYou shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

⁵⁵‘But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom you let remain of them will become ^aas pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

⁵⁶‘And as I plan to do to them, so I will do to you.’ ”