Numbers 33

Summary of journeys from Egypt to Moab

These are the journeys of the children of Israel who came out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 And Moses recorded their starting points according to their journeys by the command of the LORD, and these are their journeys according to their starting points.

33:2 Another indication that Moses wrote the Pentateuch (the first five books of the Bible). See also Ex 17:14; 24:4; 34:27; Deut 31:9; John 5:46.⚜

3 And they left Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the next day after the Passover the children of Israel went out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians. 4 For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; also the LORD executed judgments on their gods.

5 And the children of Israel left Rameses, and camped in Succoth. 6 And they left Succoth, and camped in Etham, which is on the border of the desert. 7 And they left Etham, and turned back to Pi-Hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-Zephon, and they camped before Migdol. 8 And they left Pi-Hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the desert, and went three days’ journey in the desert of Etham, and camped in Marah. 9 And they left Marah, and came to Elim. And there were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm trees in Elim; and they camped there.

10 And they left Elim, and camped by the Red Sea. 11 And they left the Red Sea, and camped in the desert of Sin. 12 And they took their journey from the desert of Sin, and camped in Dophkah. 13 And they left Dophkah, and camped in Alush. 14 And they left Alush, and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

15 And they left Rephidim, and camped in the desert of Sinai. 16 And they left the desert of Sinai, and camped at Kibroth-Hattaavah. 17 And they left Kibroth-Hattaavah, and camped at Hazeroth. 18 And they left Hazeroth, and camped in Rithmah. 19 And they left Rithmah, and camped at Rimmon-Parez. 20 And they left Rimmon-Parez, and camped in Libnah.

21 And they left Libnah, and camped at Rissah. 22 And they journeyed from Rissah, and camped in Kehelathah. 23 And they went from Kehelathah, and camped in Mount Shapher. 24 And they left Mount Shapher, and camped in Haradah. 25 And they left Haradah, and camped in Makheloth.

26 And they left Makheloth, and camped at Tahath. 27 And they left Tahath, and camped at Tarah. 28 And they left Tarah, and camped in Mithcah. 29 And they left Mithcah, and camped in Hashmonah. 30 And they left Hashmonah, and camped at Moseroth. 31 And they left Moseroth, and camped in Bene Jaakan. 32 And they left Bene Jaakan, and camped at Hor Hagidgad. 33 And they left Hor Hagidgad, and camped in Jotbathah. 34 And they left Jotbathah, and camped at Ebronah. 35 And they left Ebronah, and camped at Ezion-Geber.

36 And they left Ezion-Geber, and camped in the desert of Zin, which is Kadesh. 37 And they left Kadesh, and camped in Mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom. 38 And Aaron the priest went up on Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month. 39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died in Mount Hor.

40 And king Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south of the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel. 41 And they left Mount Hor, and camped in Zalmonah. 42 And they left Zalmonah, and camped in Punon. 43 And they left Punon, and camped in Oboth. 44 And they left Oboth, and camped in Ijeabarim, on the border of Moab. 45 And they left Iim, and camped in Dibon-Gad.

46 And they left Dibon-Gad, and camped in Almon-Diblathaim. 47 And they left Almon-Diblathaim, and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. 48 And they left the mountains of Abarim, and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho. 49 And they camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jesimoth to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.

50 And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying, 51 “Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them, When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images and destroy all their cast metal images, and demolish all their high places. 53 And you shall drive out the inhabitants of the land, and live in it, for I have given you the land to possess it. 54 And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families. And to a larger group you shall give more inheritance, and to a smaller group you shall give less inheritance. Each man’s inheritance is to be in the place where his lot falls. You are to inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.

55 “But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it will come about that those of them whom you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and will trouble you in the land where you live. 56 Also it will come about that I will do to you, as I thought to do to them”.