15 And immediately when it was morning, the chief priests, with the elders and scribes and the whole council, held a consultation; and when they had bound Jesus, they took Him away [^[a]violently] and handed Him over to Pilate.^(A)

² And Pilate inquired of Him, Are You the King of the Jews? And He replied, It is as you say.

³ And the chief priests kept accusing Him of many things.

⁴ And Pilate again asked Him, Have ^[b]You no answer to make? See how many charges they are bringing against You!

⁵ But Jesus made no further answer at all, so that Pilate wondered and marveled.^(B)

⁶ Now at the Feast he [was accustomed to] set free for them any one prisoner whom they requested.

⁷ And among the rioters in the prison who had committed murder in the insurrection there was a man named Barabbas.

⁸ And the throng came up and began asking Pilate to do as he usually did for them.

⁹ And he replied to them, Do you wish me to set free for you the King of the Jews?

¹⁰ For he was aware that it was [^[c]because they were prompted] by envy that the chief priests had delivered Him up.

¹¹ But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to get him to release for them Barabbas instead.

¹² And again Pilate said to them, Then what shall I do with the Man Whom you call the King of the Jews?

¹³ And they shouted back again, Crucify Him!

¹⁴ But Pilate said to them, Why? What has He done that is evil? But they shouted with all their might all the more, Crucify Him [^[d]at once]!

¹⁵ So Pilate, wishing to satisfy the crowd, set Barabbas free for them; and after having Jesus whipped, he handed [Him] over to be crucified.^(C)

¹⁶ Then the soldiers led Him away to the courtyard inside the palace, that is, the Praetorium, and they called the entire detachment of soldiers together.

¹⁷ And they dressed Him in [a] purple [robe], and, weaving together a crown of thorns, they placed it on Him.

¹⁸ And they began to salute Him, Hail (greetings, good health to You, long life to You), King of the Jews!

¹⁹ And they struck His head with a staff made of a [bamboo-like] reed and spat on Him and kept bowing their knees in homage to Him.^(D)

²⁰ And when they had [finished] making sport of Him, they took the purple [robe] off of Him and put His own clothes on Him. And they led Him out [of the city] to crucify Him.

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32 Now the sons of Reuben and of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle, and they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead [on the east side of the Jordan], and behold, the place was suitable for cattle.

² So the sons of Gad and of Reuben came and said to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation,

³ [The country around] Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

⁴ The land the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

⁵ And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.

⁶ And Moses said to the sons of Gad and of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?

⁷ Why do you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?

⁸ Thus your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land!

⁹ For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land the Lord had given them.

¹⁰ And the Lord’s anger was kindled on that day and He swore, saying,

¹¹ Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me—

¹² Except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.

¹³ And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed.

¹⁴ And behold, you are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

¹⁵ For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.

¹⁶ But they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and walled settlements for our little ones.

¹⁷ But we will be armed and ready to go before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified settlements because of the people of the land.

¹⁸ We will not return to our homes until the Israelites have inherited every man his inheritance.

¹⁹ For we will not inherit with them on the [west] side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

²⁰ Moses replied, If you will do as you say, going armed before the Lord to war,

²¹ And every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies before Him

²² And the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you shall return and be guiltless [in this matter] before the Lord and before Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.

²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.

²⁴ Build settlements for your little ones, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken.

²⁵ And the sons of Gad and of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord commands.

²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle shall be there in the cities of Gilead.

²⁷ But your servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says.

²⁸ So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of Israel.

²⁹ And Moses said to them, If the sons of Gad and Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man armed to battle before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.

³⁰ But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

³¹ The sons of Gad and Reuben answered, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

³² We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side of the Jordan may be ours.

³³ Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and of Reuben and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land with its cities and their territories, even the cities round about the country.

³⁴ And the sons of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

³⁵ Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

³⁶ Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

³⁷ And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

³⁸ Nebo, and Baal-meon—their names were to be changed—and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities they built.

³⁹ And the sons of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.

⁴¹ Jair son of Manasseh took their villages and called them Havvoth-jair.

⁴² And Nobah took Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

33 These are the stages of the journeys of the Israelites by which they went out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

² Moses recorded their starting places, as the Lord commanded, stage by stage; and these are their journeying stages from their starting places:

³ They set out from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the Israelites went out [of Egypt] with a high hand and triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

⁴ While the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the Lord had struck down among them; upon their gods also the Lord executed judgments.

⁵ The Israelites set out from Rameses and encamped in Succoth.

⁶ And they departed from Succoth and encamped in Etham, which is at the edge of the wilderness.

⁷ They set out from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and they encamped before Migdol.

⁸ And they journeyed from before Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the [Red] Sea into the wilderness; and they went a three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham and encamped at Marah.

⁹ They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.

¹⁰ They set out from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea.

¹¹ They journeyed from the Red Sea and encamped in the Wilderness of Sin.

¹² And they traveled on from the Wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah.

¹³ And they departed from Dophkah and encamped at Alush.

¹⁴ And they set out from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

¹⁵ And they departed from Rephidim and encamped in the Wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶ And they journeyed from the Wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷ And they traveled on from Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth.

¹⁸ And they journeyed from Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah.

¹⁹ And they departed from Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-perez.

²⁰ And they departed from Rimmon-perez and encamped at Libnah.

²¹ And they removed from Libnah and encamped at Rissah.

²² And they journeyed from Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.

²³ And they went from Kehelathah and encamped at Mount Shepher.

²⁴ And they removed from Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah.

²⁵ And they set out from Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.

²⁶ And they removed from Makheloth and encamped at Tahath.

²⁷ And they departed from Tahath and encamped at Terah.

²⁸ And they removed from Terah and encamped at Mithkah.

²⁹ And they set out from Mithkah and encamped at Hashmonah.

³⁰ And they traveled on from Hashmonah and encamped at Moseroth.

³¹ And they journeyed from Moseroth and pitched in Bene-jaakan.

³² And they set out from Bene-jaakan and encamped at Hor-haggidgad.

³³ And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and encamped at Jotbathah.

³⁴ And they journeyed from Jotbathah and encamped at Abronah.

³⁵ And they traveled on from Abronah and encamped at Ezion-geber.

³⁶ And they removed from Ezion-geber and encamped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

³⁷ And they removed from Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of Edom.

³⁸ Aaron the priest went up on Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites came out of Egypt, the first day of the fifth month.^(A)

³⁹ Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰ The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the South (the Negeb) in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.

⁴¹ They set out from Mount Hor and encamped at Zalmonah.

⁴² And they set out from Zalmonah and encamped at Punon.

⁴³ And they set out from Punon and encamped at Oboth.

⁴⁴ And they traveled on from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.

⁴⁵ And they departed from Iyim and encamped at Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶ And they set out from Dibon-gad and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷ And they traveled on from Almon-diblathaim and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸ And they departed from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

⁴⁹ And they encamped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰ And the Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,

⁵¹ Tell the Israelites, When you have passed over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵² Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you and destroy all their figured stones and all their molten images and completely demolish all their [idolatrous] high places,

⁵³ And you shall take possession of the land and dwell in it, for to you I have given the land to possess it.

⁵⁴ You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to the large tribe you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the small tribe you shall give a smaller inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.

⁵⁵ But if you will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those you let remain of them shall be as pricks in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land in which you dwell.

⁵⁶ And as I thought to do to them, so will I do to you.