Numbers 33:1–56

¹These were the stages of the sons of Israel who went out of the land of Egypt in their armies by the hand of Moses and Aaron.²And Moses kept recording the departure places by their stages at the order of Jehovah; and these were their stages from one departure place to another:³And they proceeded to pull away from Ram′e‧ses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. Directly the day after the passover the sons of Israel went out with uplifted hand before the eyes of all the Egyptians.⁴All the while the Egyptians were burying those whom Jehovah had struck among them, that is, all the firstborn; and upon their gods Jehovah had executed judgments.

⁵So the sons of Israel pulled away from Ram′e‧ses and went camping in Suc′coth.⁶Then they pulled away from Suc′coth and went camping in E′tham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.⁷Next they pulled away from E′tham and turned back toward Pi‧ha‧hi′roth, which is in view of Ba′al‐ze′phon; and they went camping before Mig′dol.⁸After that they pulled away from Pi‧ha‧hi′roth and went passing through the midst of the sea to the wilderness and kept marching a three‐day journey in the wilderness of E′tham and took up camping at Ma′rah.

⁹Then they pulled away from Ma′rah and came to E′lim. Now in E′lim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees. So they camped there.¹⁰Next they pulled away from E′lim and went camping by the Red Sea.¹¹After that they pulled away from the Red Sea and took up camping in the wilderness of Sin.¹²Then they pulled away from the wilderness of Sin and went camping at Doph′kah.¹³Later they pulled away from Doph′kah and went camping at A′lush.¹⁴They next pulled away from A′lush and went camping in Reph′i‧dim. And there proved to be no water there for the people to drink.¹⁵After that they pulled away from Reph′i‧dim and went camping in the wilderness of Si′nai.

¹⁶Subsequently they pulled away from the wilderness of Si′nai and went camping at Kib′roth‐hat‧ta′a‧vah.¹⁷Then they pulled away from Kib′roth‐hat‧ta′a‧vah and went camping in Ha‧ze′roth.¹⁸After that they pulled away from Ha‧ze′roth and went camping in Rith′mah.¹⁹Next they pulled away from Rith′mah and took up camping in Rim′mon‐pe′rez.²⁰Then they pulled away from Rim′mon‐pe′rez and went camping in Lib′nah.²¹Later they pulled away from Lib′nah and went camping in Ris′sah.²²Next they pulled away from Ris′sah and went camping in Ke‧he‧la′thah.²³Then they pulled away from Ke‧he‧la′thah and went camping in Mount She′pher.

²⁴After that they pulled away from Mount She′pher and went camping in Har‧a′dah.²⁵Then they pulled away from Har‧a′dah and went camping in Mak‧he′loth.²⁶Next they pulled away from Mak‧he′loth and went camping in Ta′hath.²⁷After that they pulled away from Ta′hath and went camping in Te′rah.²⁸Then they pulled away from Te′rah and went camping in Mith′kah.²⁹Later they pulled away from Mith′kah and went camping in Hash‧mo′nah.³⁰Next they pulled away from Hash‧mo′nah and went camping in Mo‧se′roth.³¹Then they pulled away from Mo‧se′roth and went camping in Ben′e‐ja′a‧kan.³²After that they pulled away from Ben′e‐ja′a‧kan and went camping in Hor‐hag‧gid′gad.³³Next they pulled away from Hor‐hag‧gid′gad and went camping in Jot′ba‧thah.³⁴Later they pulled away from Jot′ba‧thah and went camping in A‧bro′nah.³⁵Then they pulled away from A‧bro′nah and went camping in E′zi‧on‐ge′ber.³⁶After that they pulled away from E′zi‧on‐ge′ber and went camping in the wilderness of Zin, that is to say, Ka′desh.

³⁷Later they pulled away from Ka′desh and went camping in Mount Hor, on the frontier of the land of E′dom.³⁸And Aaron the priest proceeded to go up into Mount Hor at the order of Jehovah and to die there in the fortieth year of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month.³⁹And Aaron was a hundred and twenty‐three years old at his death on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰Now the Ca′naan‧ite, the king of A′rad, as he was dwelling in the Neg′eb, in the land of Ca′naan, got to hear about the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹In time they pulled away from Mount Hor and went camping in Zal‧mo′nah.⁴²After that they pulled away from Zal‧mo′nah and went camping in Pu′non.⁴³Next they pulled away from Pu′non and went camping in O′both.⁴⁴Then they pulled away from O′both and went camping in I′ye‐ab′a‧rim on the border of Mo′ab.⁴⁵Later they pulled away from I′yim and went camping in Di′bon‐gad.⁴⁶After that they pulled away from Di′bon‐gad and went camping in Al′mon‐dib‧la‧tha′im.⁴⁷Then they pulled away from Al′mon‐dib‧la‧tha′im and went camping in the mountains of Ab′a‧rim before Ne′bo.⁴⁸Finally they pulled away from the mountains of Ab′a‧rim and took up camping on the desert plains of Mo′ab by the Jordan at Jer′i‧cho.⁴⁹And they continued camping by the Jordan from Beth‐jesh′i‧moth to A′bel‐shit′tim on the desert plains of Mo′ab.

⁵⁰And Jehovah proceeded to speak to Moses on the desert plains of Mo′ab by the Jordan at Jer′i‧cho, saying:⁵¹“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you must say to them, ‘YOU​ are crossing the Jordan into the land of Ca′naan.⁵²And ​YOU​ must drive away all the inhabitants of the land from before ​YOU​ and destroy all their stone figures, and all their images of molten metal ​YOU​ should destroy, and all their sacred high places ​YOU​ should annihilate.⁵³And ​YOU​ must take possession of the land and dwell in it, because to ​YOU​ I shall certainly give the land to take possession of it.⁵⁴And ​YOU​ must apportion the land to yourselves as a possession by lot according to ​YOUR​ families. To the populous one ​YOU​ should increase his inheritance, and to the sparse one ​YOU​ should reduce his inheritance. To where the lot will come out for him, there it will become his. By the tribes of ​YOUR​ fathers ​YOU​ should provide yourselves with landed property.

⁵⁵“‘If, though, ​YOU​ will not drive the inhabitants of the land away from before ​YOU, then those whom ​YOU​ leave of them will certainly become as pricks in ​YOUR​ eyes and as thorns in ​YOUR​ sides, and they will indeed harass ​YOU​ on the land in which ​YOU​ will be dwelling.⁵⁶And it must occur that just as I had figured doing to them I shall do to ​YOU.’”