These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out
of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of
Moses and Aaron. Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by
stage, by command of the LORD, and these are their stages according
to their starting places. They set out from Rameses in the first
month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after
the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the
sight of all the Egyptians, while the Egyptians were burying all
their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them. On their
gods also the LORD executed judgments.
So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at
Succoth. And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which
is on the edge of the wilderness. And they set out from Etham and
turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they
camped before Migdol. And they set out from before Hahiroth and
passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they
went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at
Marah. And they set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there
were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they
camped there. And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of
Sin. And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at
Dophkah. And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. And
they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no
water for the people to drink. And they set out from Rephidim and
camped in the wilderness of Sinai. And they set out from the
wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah. And they set
out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth. And they set out
from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. And they set out from Rithmah
and camped at Rimmon-perez. And they set out from Rimmon-perez and
camped at Libnah. And they set out from Libnah and camped at
Rissah. And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. And
they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. And they
set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. And they set out
from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. And they set out from
Makheloth and camped at Tahath. And they set out from Tahath and
camped at Terah. And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. And they set
out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. And they set out from
Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan. And they set out from Bene-
jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad. And they set out from Hor-
haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah. And they set out from Jotbathah
and camped at Abronah. And they set out from Abronah and camped at
Ezion-geber. And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the
wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). And they set out from Kadesh
and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD
and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had
come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in
the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. And they
set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. And they set out from
Punon and camped at Oboth. And they set out from Oboth and camped
at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab. And they set out from Iyim
and camped at Dibon-gad. And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped
at Almon-diblathaim. And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and
camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. And they set out
from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by
the Jordan at Jericho; they camped by the Jordan from Beth-
jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
And the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan
at Jericho, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them,
When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you
shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you and
destroy all their figured stones and destroy all their metal images
and demolish all their high places. And you shall take possession
of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to
possess it. You shall inherit the land by lot according to your
clans. To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to
a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot
falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of
your fathers you shall inherit. But if you do not drive out the
inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom
you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your
sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. And
I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”
