Numbers 33-34

New Life Version

From Egypt to Moab

33 These are the travels of the people of Israel, when Moses and Aaron led them out from the land of Egypt by their armies. ² Moses wrote down the starting places of their travels, as the Lord told him. These are their travels by their starting places. ³ They traveled from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover the people of Israel started out strong in heart in front of all the Egyptians. ⁴ The Egyptians were burying all their first-born whom the Lord had killed among them. The Lord had punished their gods also.

⁵ Then the people of Israel traveled from Rameses and stayed in Succoth. ⁶ They traveled from Succoth and stayed in Etham, beside the desert. ⁷ They went from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and stayed at Migdol. ⁸ Then they traveled from Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert. They traveled for three days in the desert of Etham, and stayed at Marah. ⁹ They left Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees in Elim, and they stayed there. ¹⁰ Then they traveled from Elim and stayed by the Red Sea. ¹¹ They left the Red Sea and stayed in the Desert of Sin. ¹² They traveled from the Desert of Sin, and stayed at Dophkah. ¹³ Then they left Dophkah and stayed at Alush. ¹⁴ They traveled from Alush and stayed at Rephidim. It was there that the people had no water to drink. ¹⁵ They went from Rephidim and stayed in the Desert of Sinai. ¹⁶ They traveled from the Desert of Sinai, and stayed at Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷ They went from Kibroth-hattaavah and stayed at Hazeroth. ¹⁸ They left Hazeroth and stayed at Rithmah. ¹⁹ Then they went from Rithmah and stayed at Rimmon-perez. ²⁰ They traveled from Rimmon-perez, and stayed at Libnah. ²¹ They left Libnah, and stayed at Rissah. ²² Then they went from Rissah and stayed at Kehelathah. ²³ They went from Kehelathah and stayed at Mount Shepher. ²⁴ They traveled from Mount Shepher and stayed at Haradah. ²⁵ They left Haradah and stayed at Makheloth. ²⁶ Then they traveled from Makheloth, and stayed at Tahath. ²⁷ They traveled from Tahath, and stayed at Terah. ²⁸ They went from Terah and stayed at Mithkah. ²⁹ They left Mithkah and stayed at Hashmonah. ³⁰ Then they left Hashmonah and stayed at Moseroth. ³¹ They went from Moseroth and stayed at Benejaakan. ³² They traveled from Benejaakan, and stayed at Hor-haggidgad. ³³ They went from Hor-haggidgad and stayed at Jotbathah. ³⁴ Then they left Jotbathah and stayed at Abronah. ³⁵ They went from Abronah and stayed at Ezion-geber. ³⁶ They went from Ezion-geber and stayed in the Desert of Zin, that is, Kadesh. ³⁷ And they traveled from Kadesh, and stayed at Mount Hor, beside the land of Edom.

³⁸ Then Aaron the religious leader went up to Mount Hor, as the Lord told him. He died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had left the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹ Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰ The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

⁴¹ Then the people traveled from Mount Hor, and stayed at Zalmonah. ⁴² They left Zalmonah, and stayed at Punon. ⁴³ They went from Punon and stayed at Oboth. ⁴⁴ Then they left Oboth and stayed at Iye-abarim, beside Moab. ⁴⁵ They traveled from Iyim, and stayed at Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶ They went from Dibon-gad and stayed at Almon-diblathaim. ⁴⁷ They left Almon-diblathaim and stayed in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo. ⁴⁸ They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and stayed in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho. ⁴⁹ And they stayed by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰ Then the Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho, ⁵¹ “Say to the people of Israel, ‘You will cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan. ⁵² Then drive out all the people living in the land in front of you. Destroy all their cut stones, and all their man-made gods, and all their high places. ⁵³ Take the land for your own and live in it. For I have given the land to you. ⁵⁴ Your families will receive land by drawing names. The larger families should be given more land. The smaller families should be given less land. When a man’s name is drawn, that land will be his. You will receive land by the family groups of your fathers. ⁵⁵ Drive out the people who live in the land in front of you. If you do not, then those who are allowed to stay will be like sharp pieces in your eyes and like thorns in your sides. They will trouble you in the land where you live. ⁵⁶ And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’”

The Land of Canaan

34 Then the Lord said to Moses, ² “Tell the people of Israel, ‘When you go into the land of Canaan, this is the land that will be given to you, all the land of Canaan. ³ Your south side will be from the Desert of Zin along the side of Edom. It will go east from the end of the Salt Sea. ⁴ Then the side of your land will turn from the south up to the pass of Akrabbim and on to Zin. Its end will be south of Kadesh-barnea. It will go to Hazaraddar and on to Azmon. ⁵ Then it will turn from Azmon to the river of Egypt, and will end at the sea.

⁶ ‘The west side of your land will be the shore of the Great Sea.

⁷ ‘Your north side will be from the Great Sea to Mount Hor. ⁸ And it will go from Mount Hor to the Lebohamath, and end at Zedad. ⁹ Then it will go to Ziphron and end at Hazer-enan. This will be the north side.

¹⁰ ‘The east side of your land will be from Hazer-enan to Shepham, ¹¹ then down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain. Then it will go down to the hill on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth. ¹² It will go down to the Jordan and end at the Salt Sea. This will be the sides all around your land.’”

¹³ Moses told the people of Israel, “This is the land you will receive by drawing names, which the Lord has said should be given to the nine and a half-family groups. ¹⁴ For the sons of Reuben have received their land by their fathers’ houses. The sons of Gad have received theirs by their fathers’ houses. And the half-family group of Manasseh has received their land. ¹⁵ The two and a half-family groups have received their land on the other side of the Jordan from Jericho, toward the east.”

¹⁶ The Lord said to Moses, ¹⁷ “Eleazar the religious leader and Joshua the son of Nun are the men who will divide the land to be given to you. ¹⁸ And take one leader of every family group to divide the land among you. ¹⁹ These are the names of the men. Take Caleb the son of Jephunneh of the family group of Judah. ²⁰ Take Samuel the son of Ammihud of the family group of the sons of Simeon. ²¹ Take Elidad the son of Chislon of the family group of Benjamin. ²² Take Bukki the son of Jogli as the leader of the family group of the sons of Dan. ²³ Of the sons of Joseph, take Hanniel the son of Ephod as the leader of the family group of the sons of Manasseh. ²⁴ Take Kemuel the son of Shiphtan as the leader of the family group of the sons of Ephraim. ²⁵ Take Elizaphan the son of Parnach as the leader of the family group of the sons of Zebulun. ²⁶ Take Paltiel the son of Azzan as the leader of the family group of the sons of Issachar. ²⁷ Take Ahihud the son of Shelomi as the leader of the family group of the sons of Asher. ²⁸ And take Pedahel the son of Ammihud as the leader of the family group of the sons of Naphtali.” ²⁹ These are the men whom the Lord told to divide the land among the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.