Numbers 33–35

Chapter 33

¹These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. ²Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord; and these are their stages according to their starting places. ³They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, ⁴while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom the Lord had struck down among them; upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.

⁵So the people of Israel set out from Rameses, and encamped at Succoth. ⁶And they set out from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷And they set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon; and they encamped before Migdol. ⁸And they set out from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah. ⁹And they set out from Marah, and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there. ¹⁰And they set out from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea. ¹¹And they set out from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. ¹²And they set out from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah. ¹³And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush. ¹⁴And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵And they set out from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah. ¹⁷And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth. ¹⁸And they set out from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah. ¹⁹And they set out from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmon-perez. ²⁰And they set out from Rimmon-perez, and encamped at Libnah. ²¹And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah. ²²And they set out from Rissah, and encamped at Kehelathah. ²³And they set out from Kehelathah, and encamped at Mount Shepher. ²⁴And they set out from Mount Shepher, and encamped at Haradah. ²⁵And they set out from Haradah, and encamped at Makheloth. ²⁶And they set out from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. ²⁷And they set out from Tahath, and encamped at Terah. ²⁸And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah. ²⁹And they set out from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmonah. ³⁰And they set out from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth. ³¹And they set out from Moseroth, and encamped at Bene-jaakan. ³²And they set out from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-haggidgad. ³³And they set out from Hor-haggidgad, and encamped at Jotbathah. ³⁴And they set out from Jotbathah, and encamped at Abronah. ³⁵And they set out from Abronah, and encamped at Ezion-geber. ³⁶And they set out from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). ³⁷And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

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

⁴⁰And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

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

⁵⁰And the Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, ⁵¹“Say to the people of Israel, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵²then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places; ⁵³and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. ⁵⁴You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. ⁵⁵But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”

Chapter 34

¹The Lord said to Moses, ²“Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan in its full extent), ³your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern boundary shall be from the end of the Salt Sea on the east; ⁴and your boundary shall turn south of the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its end shall be south of Kadesh-barnea; then it shall go on to Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon; ⁵and the boundary shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

⁶“For the western boundary, you shall have the Great Sea and its coast; this shall be your western boundary.

⁷“This shall be your northern boundary: from the Great Sea you shall mark out your line to Mount Hor; ⁸from Mount Hor you shall mark it out to the entrance of Hamath, and the end of the boundary shall be at Zeded; ⁹then the boundary shall extend to Ziphron, and its end shall be at Hazar-enan; this shall be your northern boundary.

¹⁰“You shall mark out your eastern boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham; ¹¹and the boundary shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the boundary shall go down, and reach to the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth on the east; ¹²and the boundary shall go down to the Jordan, and its end shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land with its boundaries all round.”

¹³Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, “This is the land which you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe; ¹⁴for the tribe of the sons of Reuben by fathers’ houses and the tribe of the sons of Gad by their fathers’ houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh; ¹⁵the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”

¹⁶The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷“These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸You shall take one leader of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ²⁰Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. ²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. ²²Of the tribe of the sons of Dan a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli. ²³Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod. ²⁴And of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim a leader, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵Of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun a leader, Eli-zaphan the son of Parnach. ²⁶Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan. ²⁷And of the tribe of the sons of Asher a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. ²⁸Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud. ²⁹These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.”

Chapter 35

¹The Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, ²“Command the people of Israel, that they give to the Levites, from the inheritance of their possession, cities to dwell in; and you shall give to the Levites pasture lands round about the cities. ³The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasture lands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts. ⁴The pasture lands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits all round. ⁵And you shall measure, outside the city, for the east side two thousand cubits, and for the south side two thousand cubits, and for the west side two thousand cubits, and for the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle; this shall belong to them as pasture land for their cities. ⁶The cities which you give to the Levites shall be the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities. ⁷All the cities which you give to the Levites shall be forty-eight, with their pasture lands. ⁸And as for the cities which you shall give from the possession of the people of Israel, from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance which it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”

⁹And the Lord said to Moses, ¹⁰“Say to the people of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the…