Numbers 33:37–56

³⁷They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.^*

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

⁴⁰The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.^*

⁴¹They set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. ⁴²They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. ⁴³They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.^{* 44}They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.^{* 45}They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. ⁴⁷They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.^{* 48}They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho;^{* 49}they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.^*

Directions for the Conquest of Canaan

⁵⁰In the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ⁵¹“Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵²you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.^{* 53}You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. ⁵⁴You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall apportion it.^{* 55}But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.^{* 56}And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”