Numbers 33

The Voice

33 ^1-2 Based on the meticulous records of departure points Moses kept, at the direction of the Eternal One, he reported that the Israelites’ wilderness journey from Egypt led by Moses and Aaron followed this itinerary: ³ They started out from Rameses in Egypt on Month 1, day 15 (the day after observing the Passover), and were exalted before the Egyptians’ eyes ⁴ (who were burying their firstborn dead, struck down by God, and whose gods the Eternal was punishing). ⁵ The Israelites’ first camp after Rameses was Succoth. ⁶ The next, Etham, was right where the wilderness begins. ⁷ From Etham, they went toward Pi-hahiroth, facing Baal-zephon, and camped in front of Migdol. ⁸ From Pi-hahiroth, they crossed the sea and entered the wilderness proper. For three days, they crossed that Etham Wilderness, stopping over at Marah ⁹ and then Elim. That was a good spot to camp. Elim was an oasis with 12 springs and 70 palm trees. ¹⁰ After Elim, their next stop was at the coast of the Red Sea;^{[a] 11} then they camped in the Sin Wilderness. ¹² After leaving Sin, they traveled to Dophkah, ¹³ then Alush, ¹⁴ and then Rephidim. At that point, the people were getting desperate for water and ornery on account of their discomfort and thirst. There, God told Moses to produce water for them from out of a rock.^{[b] 15} After that, the Sinai Wilderness. ^16-17 Their stopping places after Sinai were first Kibroth-hattaavah, then Hazeroth. ^18-23 They camped as they moved from place to place through Rithmah, Rimmon-perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelathah, and Mount Shepher. ^24-27 From there they moved through Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, and Terah. ^28-33 Continuing their journey from place to place, they went through Mithkah, Hashmonah, Moseroth, Bene-jaakan, Hor-haggidgad, and Jotbathah. ^34-37 They camped in Abronah, Ezion-geber, Kadesh (in the Zin Wilderness), and then Mount Hor (on the Edomite border). ³⁸ It was at Mount Hor that Aaron the priest went up the mountain and died as the Eternal said he would. That was in the 40th year after the Israelites had left Egypt, and it happened on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹ Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor. ⁴⁰ That was also when the Canaanite king of Arad, from the Negev region, caught wind of the Israelites’ arrival and attacked them.

^41-47 After Mount Hor, their next camp site was Zalmonah, then Punon, Oboth, Iye-abarim (on Moab’s border), Dibon-gad, Almon-diblathaim, and Nebo’s foothills of Abarim. ⁴⁸ From Abarim, they set up camp on the flatlands of Moab, on the western banks of the Jordan River, east of Jericho. ⁴⁹ Their camp stretched from Beth-jeshimoth on the riverbank to Abel-shittim in the flatlands.

⁵⁰ In that Moabite flatland, next to the Jordan, east of Jericho, the Eternal One told Moses to speak to the people.