Numbers 33
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Stages of the Journey. 1The following are the stages by which the Israelites went out by companies from the land of Egypt under the guidance of Moses and Aaron.#According to v. 2, this list of camping sites was drawn up by Moses as an itinerary recording Israel’s trek through the wilderness. Comparison with the more detailed accounts of the journey as given elsewhere suggests that the list is not necessarily comprehensive. It records just forty camping sites, not counting the starting place, Rameses, and the terminus, the plains of Moab. This number, which corresponds exactly to the forty years of wandering in the wilderness, is probably a schematic device. Moreover, it seems that in its present form the order of some of the names here has been disturbed. Several names listed here are not recorded elsewhere. 2Moses recorded the starting points of the various stages at the direction of the Lord. These are the stages according to their starting points: 3They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went forth in triumph, in view of all Egypt, 4while the Egyptians buried those whom the Lord had struck down, every firstborn; on their gods, too, the Lord executed judgments.#Ex 12:12, 29, 37.
From Egypt to Sinai. 5Setting out from Rameses, the Israelites camped at Succoth. 6Setting out from Succoth, they camped at Etham near the edge of the wilderness. 7Setting out from Etham, they turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is opposite Baal-zephon, and they camped opposite Migdol.#Ex 14:2. 8Setting out from Pi-hahiroth, they crossed over through the sea into the wilderness,#Ex 15:22. and after they traveled a three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, they camped at Marah. 9Setting out from Marah, they came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.#Ex 15:27. 10Setting out from Elim, they camped beside the Red Sea. 11Setting out from the Red Sea, they camped in the wilderness of Sin. 12Setting out from the wilderness of Sin, they camped at Dophkah. 13Setting out from Dophkah, they camped at Alush. 14Setting out from Alush, they camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.#Ex 17:1. 15Setting out from Rephidim, they camped in the wilderness of Sinai.#Ex 19:2.
From Sinai to Kadesh. 16Setting out from the wilderness of Sinai, they camped at Kibroth-hattaavah. 17Setting out from Kibroth-hattaavah, they camped at Hazeroth.#Nm 11:34–35. 18Setting out from Hazeroth, they camped at Rithmah. 19Setting out from Rithmah, they camped at Rimmon-perez. 20Setting out from Rimmon-perez, they camped at Libnah. 21Setting out from Libnah, they camped at Rissah. 22Setting out from Rissah, they camped at Kehelathah. 23Setting out from Kehelathah, they camped at Mount Shepher. 24Setting out from Mount Shepher, they camped at Haradah. 25Setting out from Haradah, they camped at Makheloth. 26Setting out from Makheloth, they camped at Tahath. 27Setting out from Tahath, they camped at Terah. 28Setting out from Terah, they camped at Mithkah. 29Setting out from Mithkah, they camped at Hashmonah. 30#Moseroth is mentioned in Dt 10:6 (in the form of “Moserah”) as the place where Aaron died, apparently a variant of the tradition here in v. 38 regarding the place of Aaron’s death; so also Nm 20:22–24 and Dt 32:50. Perhaps Moseroth was close to Mount Hor. Setting out from Hashmonah, they camped at Moseroth. 31Setting out from Moseroth, they camped at Bene-jaakan. 32Setting out from Bene-jaakan, they camped at Mount Gidgad. 33Setting out from Mount Gidgad, they camped at Jotbathah. 34Setting out from Jotbathah, they camped at Abronah. 35Setting out from Abronah, they camped at Ezion-geber.#Ezion-geber: Solomon conducted sea trade with Ophir from this port (1 Kgs 9:26), today probably identified on the northern coast of the Gulf of Elath between the Jordanian city of Aqabah and the Israeli city of Elath. 36Setting out from Ezion-geber, they camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.#Nm 20:1, 22.
From Kadesh to the Plains of Moab. 37Setting out from Kadesh, they camped at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom.
38Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor#Nm 20:25; Dt 32:50. at the Lord’s direction, and there he died in the fortieth year after the departure of the Israelites from the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. 39Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40#The verse repeats almost verbatim the same introduction to the account of the victory over Arad as is given in 21:1–3, where it also follows the account of Aaron’s death. Perhaps the isolated verse here is intended by the editor(s) of Numbers to point the reader to the fuller account given there. When the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who ruled over the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard that the Israelites were coming….
41#33:41b–49] It seems that this section stood originally immediately after v. 36a. Setting out from Mount Hor, they camped at Zalmonah. 42Setting out from Zalmonah, they camped at Punon. 43Setting out from Punon, they camped at Oboth. 44Setting out from Oboth, they camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab. 45Setting out from Iye-abarim, they camped at Dibon-gad. 46Setting out from Dibon-gad, they camped at Almon-diblathaim. 47Setting out from Almon-diblathaim, they camped in the Abarim range opposite Nebo. 48Setting out from the Abarim range, they camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho. 49They camped by the Jordan on the plains of Moab extended from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
Conquest and Division of Canaan. 50The Lord spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho: 51Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When you go across the Jordan into the land of Canaan, 52dispossess all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their stone figures, destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places.#Ex 23:31; 34:13; Dt 7:5; 12:3.
53You will take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. 54You will apportion the land among yourselves by lot, clan by clan, assigning a large heritage to a large clan and a small heritage to a small clan.#Nm 26:53–56. Wherever anyone’s lot falls, there will his possession be; you will apportion these shares within your ancestral tribe.
55But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land before you, those whom you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will harass you in the land where you live,#Jos 23:13; Jgs 2:3. 56and I will treat you as I had intended to treat them.
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Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 33
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1These are the departures of the children of Yisra’ĕl, who went out of the land of Mitsrayim by their divisions under the hand of Mosheh and Aharon.
2And Mosheh wrote down the starting points of their departures at the mouth of יהוה, and these are their departures according to their starting points:
3So they departed from Ra‛meses in the first new moon, on the fifteenth day of the first new moon, on the morrow of the Pĕsaḥ the children of Yisra’ĕl went out with boldness before the eyes of all the Mitsrites,
4and the Mitsrites were burying all their first-born, whom יהוה had stricken among them. Also on their mighty ones יהוה had executed judgments.
5Then the children of Yisra’ĕl departed from Ra‛meses and camped at Sukkoth.
6And they departed from Sukkoth and camped at Ětham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
7And they departed from Ětham and turned back to Pi Haḥiroth, which is east of Ba‛al Tsephon. And they camped near Miḡdol.
8And they departed from before Haḥiroth and passed over through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Ětham, and camped at Marah.
9And they departed from Marah and came to Ělim. And at Ělim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.
10And they departed from Ělim and camped by the Sea of Reeds.
11And they departed from the Sea of Reeds and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
12And they departed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophqah.
13And they departed from Dophqah and camped at Alush.
14And they departed from Alush and camped at Rephiḏim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
15And they departed from Rephiḏim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
16And they departed from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Qiḇroth Hatta’awah.
17And they departed from Qiḇroth Hatta’awah and camped at Ḥatsĕroth.
18And they departed from Ḥatsĕroth and camped at Rithmah.
19And they departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perets.
20And they departed from Rimmon Perets and camped at Liḇnah.
21And they departed from Liḇnah and camped at Rissah.
22And they departed from Rissah and camped at Qehĕlathah.
23And they departed from Qehĕlathah and camped at Mount Shapher.
24And they departed from Mount Shapher and camped at Ḥaraḏah.
25And they departed from Ḥaraḏah and camped at Maqhĕloth.
26And they departed from Maqhĕloth and camped at Taḥath.
27And they departed from Taḥath and camped at Teraḥ.
28And they departed from Teraḥ and camped at Mithqah.
29And they departed from Mithqah and camped at Ḥashmonah.
30And they departed from Ḥashmonah and camped at Mosĕroth.
31And they departed from Mosĕroth and camped at Benĕi Ya‛aqan.
32And they departed from Benĕi Ya‛aqan and camped at Ḥor Haggiḏgaḏ.
33And they departed from Ḥor Haggiḏgaḏ and camped at Yotḇathah.
34And they departed from Yotḇathah and camped at Aḇronah.
35And they departed from Aḇronah and camped at Etsyon Geḇer.
36And they departed from Etsyon Geḇer and camped in the Wilderness of Tsin, which is Qaḏĕsh.
37And they departed from Qaḏĕsh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Eḏom.
38Then Aharon the priest went up to Mount Hor at the mouth of יהוה, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Yisra’ĕl had come out of the land of Mitsrayim, on the first day of the fifth new moon.
39Now Aharon was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40And the sovereign of Araḏ, the Kena‛anite, who dwelt in the South in the land of Kena‛an, heard of the coming of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
41So they departed from Mount Hor and camped at Tsalmonah.
42And they departed from Tsalmonah and camped at Punon.
43And they departed from Punon and camped at Oḇoth.
44And they departed from Oḇoth and camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim, at the border of Mo’aḇ.
45And they departed from Iyim and camped at Diḇon Gaḏ.
46And they departed from Diḇon Gaḏ and camped at Almon Diḇlathayemah.
47And they departed from Almon Diḇlathayemah and camped in the mountains of Aḇarim, before Neḇo.
48And they departed from the mountains of Aḇarim and camped in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ by the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo.
49And they camped by the Yardĕn, from Bĕyth Yeshimoth as far as the Aḇĕl Shittim in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ.
50And יהוה spoke to Mosheh in the desert plains of Mo’aḇ by the Yardĕn of Yeriḥo, saying,
51“Speak to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and say to them, ‘When you have passed over the Yardĕn into the land of Kena‛an,
52then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and shall destroy all their engraved stones, and shall destroy all their moulded images, and lay waste all their high places,
53and you shall possess the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
54And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your clans. To the larger you give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that is his. You inherit according to the tribes of your fathers.
55And if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
56And it shall be that I do to you as I thought to do to them.’ ”
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