Numbers 33

Israel’s Journey from Egypt Reviewed

33These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the ^ahand of Moses and Aaron. ²Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:

³They ^bdeparted from Rameses in ^cthe first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out ^dwith boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. ⁴For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, ^ewhom the Lord had killed among them. Also ^fon their gods the Lord had executed judgments.

^5gThen the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth. ⁶They departed from ^hSuccoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷ⁱThey moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol. ⁸They departed ¹from before Hahiroth and ^jpassed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah. ⁹They moved from Marah and ^kcame to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.

¹⁰They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea. ¹¹They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the ^lWilderness of Sin. ¹²They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah. ¹³They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush. ¹⁴They moved from Alush and camped at ^mRephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵They departed from Rephidim and camped in the ⁿWilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped ^oat ²Kibroth Hattaavah. ¹⁷They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and ^pcamped at Hazeroth. ¹⁸They departed from Hazeroth and camped at ^qRithmah. ¹⁹They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez. ²⁰They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah. ²¹They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah. ²²They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. ²³They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. ²⁴They moved from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. ²⁵They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. ²⁶They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. ²⁷They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah. ²⁸They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah. ²⁹They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. ³⁰They departed from Hashmonah and ^rcamped at Moseroth. ³¹They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan. ³²They moved from ^sBene Jaakan and ^tcamped at Hor Hagidgad. ³³They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah. ³⁴They moved from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. ³⁵They departed from Abronah ^uand camped at Ezion Geber. ³⁶They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the ^vWilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. ³⁷They moved from ^wKadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.

³⁸Then ^xAaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰Now ^ythe king of Arad, the Canaanite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

⁴¹So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. ⁴²They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. ⁴³They departed from Punon and ^zcamped at Oboth. ^44aThey departed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, at the border of Moab. ⁴⁵They departed from ³Ijim and camped ^bat Dibon Gad. ⁴⁶They moved from Dibon Gad and camped at ^cAlmon Diblathaim. ⁴⁷They moved from Almon Diblathaim ^dand camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. ⁴⁸They departed from the mountains of Abarim and ^ecamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. ⁴⁹They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth as far as the ^fAbel Acacia Grove ⁴in the plains of Moab.

Instructions for the Conquest of Canaan

⁵⁰Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying, ⁵¹“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ^g‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ^52hthen you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their ⁵high places; ⁵³you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to ⁱpossess. ⁵⁴And ^jyou shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot. You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. ⁵⁵But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be ^kirritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶Moreover it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”