Israel's Journey from Egypt to Moab
Numbers 33, verse 1. Now these are the stages in the journeys of the children of Israel who went out from the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. Numbers 33, verse 2. So Moses wrote their departures and the stages in their journeys by the word of the Lord. Numbers 33, verse 3. They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after Pascha, the children of Israel went out with a high hand before all the Egyptians. Numbers 33, verse 4. But the Egyptians were burying from among themselves all who died, whom the Lord struck down, every firstborn in the land of Egypt; and the Lord executed vengeance on their gods. Numbers 33, verse 5. Then the children of Israel departed from Rameses and camped in Succoth. Numbers 33, verse 6. They departed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is part of the desert. Numbers 33, verse 7. They departed from Etham and camped at the mouth of Hahiroth, which is opposite Baal Zephon; and they camped opposite Migdol. Numbers 33, verse 8. They departed opposite Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the desert; and they went three days’ journey through the desert and camped at Marah. Numbers 33, verse 9. They departed from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there by the water. Numbers 33, verse 10. They departed from Elim and camped by the Red Sea. Numbers 33, verse 11. They departed from the Red Sea and camped in the Desert of Sin. Numbers 33, verse 12. They departed from the Desert of Sin and camped at Dophkah. Numbers 33, verse 13. They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush. Numbers 33, verse 14. They departed from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. Numbers 33, verse 15. They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Sinai Desert. Numbers 33, verse 16. They moved from the Sinai Desert and camped at Graves of Lust. Numbers 33, verse 17. They departed from Graves of Lust and camped at Hazeroth. Numbers 33, verse 18. They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. Numbers 33, verse 19. They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez. Numbers 33, verse 20. They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah. Numbers 33, verse 21. They departed from Libnah and camped at Rissah. Numbers 33, verse 22. They departed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. Numbers 33, verse 23. They departed from Kehelathah and camped at Shepher. Numbers 33, verse 24. They departed from Shepher and camped at Haradah. Numbers 33, verse 25. They departed from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. Numbers 33, verse 26. They departed from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. Numbers 33, verse 27. They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah. Numbers 33, verse 28. They departed from Terah and camped at Mithkah. Numbers 33, verse 29. They departed from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. Numbers 33, verse 30. They departed from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. Numbers 33, verse 31. They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan. Numbers 33, verse 32. They departed from Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Hagidgad. Numbers 33, verse 33. They departed from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah. Numbers 33, verse 34. They departed from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. Numbers 33, verse 35. They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber. Numbers 33, verse 36. They departed from Ezion Geber and camped in the Desert of Sin; and they departed from the Desert of Sin and camped in the Desert of Paran (this is Kadesh). Numbers 33, verse 37. They departed from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, near the land of Edom. Numbers 33, verse 38. Then Aaron the priest went up at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year of the exodus of the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. Numbers 33, verse 39. Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor. Numbers 33, verse 40. Now this was the time when the Canaanite king of Arad (and this man dwelt in the land of Canaan) heard the children of Israel were coming. Numbers 33, verse 41. Then they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. Numbers 33, verse 42. They departed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. Numbers 33, verse 43. They departed from Punon and camped at Oboth. Numbers 33, verse 44. They departed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, at the borders of Moab. Numbers 33, verse 45. They departed from Ije Abarim and camped at Dibon Gad. Numbers 33, verse 46. They departed from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim. Numbers 33, verse 47. They departed from Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. Numbers 33, verse 48. They departed from the mountains of Abarim and camped west of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho. Numbers 33, verse 49. They camped by the Jordan between Beth Jesimoth as far as the Abel Acacia Grove, west of Moab.
Instructions on Crossing the Jordan, Entering Canaan
Numbers 33, verse 50. Now the Lord spoke to Moses west of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying, Numbers 33, verse 51. “Speak to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘You are crossing over the Jordan into the land of Canaan. Numbers 33, verse 52. Then you shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land before your face; and you shall remove their high places, and as for all their molten idols, you shall destroy these; and you shall remove all their pillars. Numbers 33, verse 53. You shall also destroy all the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I give you their land as an inheritance. Numbers 33, verse 54. Therefore you shall inherit their land by lot among your tribes; 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. Numbers 33, verse 55. But if you do not destroy the inhabitants of the land from before your face, it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be thorns in your eyes and arrows in your sides; and they shall be at enmity with you in the land where you dwell. Numbers 33, verse 56. Moreover, it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’”