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Numbers 33
The Stages of the Exodus
1 Here are the stages of the journey made by the sons of Israel when they came out in a body from the land of Egypt, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses recorded their starting-points in writing whenever they broke camp on Yahweh’s orders. Here are the stages according to their starting-points.
3 They left Rameses in the first month. It was on the fifteenth day of the first month, on the day following the Passover, that the sons of Israel set out triumphantly in the sight of all Egypt.
4 The Egyptians. were burying those of their own people whom Yahweh had struck down, all their first-born; Yahweh had carried out his judgement on their gods.
5 The sons of Israel left Rameses and camped at Succoth.
6 Then they left Succoth and encamped at Etham which is on the edge of the wilderness.
7 They left Etham, turned back to Pi-hahiroth which faces Baal-zephon, and encamped before Migdol.
8 They left Pi-hahiroth, crossed over the sea into the wilderness, and after marching for three days in the desert of Etham they encamped at Marah.
9 They left Marah and reached Elim. At Elim there are twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; they encamped there.
10 They left Elim and encamped by the Sea of Reeds.
11 They left the Sea of Reeds and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
12 They left the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah.
13 They left Dophkah and encamped at Alush.
14 They left Alush and encamped at Rephidim; the people found no drinking water there.
15 They left Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 They left the wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 They left Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 They left Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah.
19 They left Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-perez.
20 They left Rimnion-perez and encamped at Libnah.
21 They left Libnah and encamped at Rissah.
22 They left Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.
23 They left Kehelathah and encamped at Mount Shepher.
24 They left Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah.
25 They left Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.
26 They left Makheloth and encamped at Tahath.
27 They left Tahath and encamped at Terah.
28 They left Terah and encamped at Mithkah.
29 They left Mithkah and encamped at Hashmonah.
30 They left Hashmonah and encamped at Moseroth.
31 They left Moseroth and encamped at Bene-jaakan.
32 They left Bene-jaakan and encamped at Hor-haggidgad.
33 They left Hor-haggidgad and encamped at Jotbathah.
34 They left Jotbathah and encamped at Abronah.
35 They left Abronah and encamped at Ezion-geber.
36 They left Ezion-geber and encamped in the wilderness of Zin; this is Kadesh.
37 They left Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor, on the borders of the land of Edom.
38 Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor on Yahweh’s orders and it was there that he died, in the fortieth year of the exodus of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died at Mount Hor.
40 The king of Arad, a Canaanite who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, was informed when the sons of Israel arrived.
41 They left Mount Hor and encamped at Zalmonah.
42 They left Zalmonah and encamped at Punon.
43 They left Punon and encamped at Oboth.
44 They left Oboth and encamped in Moabite territory at Iye-abarim.
45 They left lyim and encamped at Dibon-gad.
46 They left Dibon-gad and encamped at Almon-diblathaim.
47 They left Almon-diblathaim and encamped in the Abarim mountains facing Nebo.
48 They left the Abarim mountains and encamped in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan opposite Jericho.
49 They encamped near the Jordan between Beth-ha-jeshimoth and Abel-hash-shittim, in the plains of Moab.
The allocation of Canaan. God’s order
50 Yahweh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab, near the Jordan opposite Jericho. He said:
51 ‘Say this to the sons of Israel: “When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 you must drive all the inhabitants of the country before you. You must destroy their sculptured stones, you must destroy all their statues of cast metal, and you must demolish all their high places.
53 You will take possession of this land and you will stay in it, for I have given it to you for your own.
54 You are to divide it by lot among your clans. To a large clan you will give a greater inheritance, to a small clan a lesser one. Where the lot falls for each, that will be his. Make this apportionment according to patriarchal tribes.
55 But if you do not drive the inhabitants of the country before you, then those you have spared will be barbs in your eyes and thorns in your side, they will harass you in the land where you live
56 and I will deal with you as I meant to deal with them.”‘