1   These are the stages in the journey of the Israelites, when they were led by Moses and Aaron in their tribal hosts out of Egypt. 2   Moses recorded their starting-points stage by stage as the Lord commanded him. These are their stages from one starting-point to the next:

3   The Israelites left Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the Passover; they marched out defiantly in full view of all the Egyptians, 4   while the Egyptians were burying all the first-born struck down by the Lord as a judgement on their gods.

5   The Israelites left Rameses and encamped at Succoth.

6   They left Succoth and encamped at Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

7   They left Etham, turned back near Pi-hahiroth ^note on the east of Baal-zephon, and encamped before Migdol.

8   They left Pi-hahiroth, ^note passed through the Sea into the wilderness, marched for three days through the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.

9   They left Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm-trees, and encamped there.

10   They left Elim and encamped by the Red Sea.

11   They left the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.

12   They left the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah. ^note

13   They left Dophkah and encamped at Alush.

14   They left Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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-parez.

20   They left Rimmon-parez 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 Shapher.

Israel in the plains of Moab

24   They left Mount Shapher 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 Tarah.

28   They left Tarah and encamped at Mithcah.

29   They left Mithcah 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 Ebronah. ^note

35   They left Ebronah and encamped at Ezion-geber.

36   They left Ezion-geber and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, that is of Kadesh.

37   They left Kadesh and encamped on Mount Hor on the frontier of Edom.

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

40   The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Canaanite Negeb, heard that the Israelites were coming.

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 at Iye-abarim on the frontier of Moab.

45   They left Iyim and encamped at Dibon-gad.

46   They left Dibon-gad and encamped at Almon-diblathaim.

47   They left Almon-diblathaim and encamped in the mountains of Abarim east of Nebo.

48   They left the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. 49   Their camp beside the Jordan extended from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim in the lowlands of Moab. 50   In the lowlands of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho the Lord spoke to Moses and said, 51   Speak to the Israelites in these words: You will soon be crossing the Jordan to enter Canaan. 52   You must drive out all its inhabitants as you advance, destroy all their carved figures and their images of cast metal, and lay their hill-shrines in ruins. 53   You must take possession of the land and settle there, for to you I have given the land to occupy. 54   You must divide it by lot among your families, each taking its own territory, the large family a large territory and the small

Israel in the plains of Moab family a small. It shall be assigned to them according to the fall of the lot, each tribe and family taking its own territory. 55   If you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land as you advance, any whom you leave in possession will become like a barbed hook in your eye and a thorn in your side. They shall continually dispute your possession of the land, 56   and what I meant to do to them I will do to you.

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