(KJV) Numbers 331

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Forty-Two Journeys of the Israelites

[1] These [are] the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies2 under the hand3 of Moses and Aaron. [2] And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys4 by the commandment of the Lord: and these [are] their journeys according to their goings out. [3] And they departed5 from Rameses in the first6 month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high7 hand in the sight of all the Egyptians. [4] For the Egyptians buried8 all [their] firstborn, which the Lord had smitten among them: upon their gods9 also the Lord executed judgments. [5] And the children of Israel removed10 from Rameses11, and pitched in Succoth. [6] And they departed12 from Succoth13, and pitched in Etham14, which [is] in the edge of the wilderness. [7] And they removed15 from Etham, and turned again unto Pi–hahiroth, which [is] before Baal–zephon16: and they pitched before Migdol. [8] And they departed17 from before Pi–hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham18, and pitched in Marah. [9] And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim [were] twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.19 [10] And they removed from Elim20, and encamped by the Red sea. [11] And they removed from the Red sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. [12] And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah. [13] And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush. [14] And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim21, where was no water for the people to drink. [15] And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Sinai.22 [16] And they removed23 from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah24. [17] And they departed from Kibroth–hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.25 [18] And they departed26 from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah27. [19] And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez28. [20] And they departed from Rimmon–parez, and pitched in Libnah. [21] And they removed from Libnah29, and pitched at Rissah30. [22] And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah. [23] And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher. [24] And they removed from mount Shapher31, and encamped in Haradah. [25] And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth. [26] And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath. [27] And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah. [28] And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah. [29] And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah. [30] And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth32. [31] And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan33. [32] And they removed from Bene–jaakan, and encamped at Hor–hagidgad.34 [33] And they went from Hor–hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah35. [34] And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah36. [35] And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion–gaber37. [36] And they removed from Ezion–gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin38, which [is] Kadesh. [37] And they removed from Kadesh39, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom. [38] And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first [day] of the fifth month.40 [39] And Aaron [was] an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor. [40] And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.41 [41] And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.42 [42] And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon43. [43] And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth44. [44] And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Ije–abarim45, in the border of Moab. [45] And they departed from Iim, and pitched in Dibon–gad. [46] And they removed from Dibon–gad46, and encamped in Almon–diblathaim47. [47] And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains48 of Abarim, before Nebo. [48] And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains49 of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho. [49] And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth–jesimoth50 [even] unto Abel–shittim51 in the plains of Moab.

Instructions for Occupying Canaan

[50] And the Lord spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan [near] Jericho, saying,52 [51] Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;53 [52] Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:54 [53] And ye shall dispossess [the inhabitants of] the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.55 [54] And ye shall divide56 the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: [and] to the more ye shall give the more inheritance57, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance58: every man’s [inheritance] shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit. [55] But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them [shall be] pricks59 in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell. [56] Moreover it shall come to pass, [that] I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them. 60

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  1. Num 33:1, The two and forty journeys of the Israelites; Num 33:50, The Canaanites are to be destroyed. 

  2. Exod 12:37, Exod 12:51, Exod 13:18 

  3. Josh 24:5; 1Sam 12:8; Ps 77:20; Mic 6:4 

  4. Num 9:17-23, Num 10:6, Num 10:13; Deut 1:2, Deut 10:11 

  5. Gen 47:11; Exod 1:11, Exod 12:37 

  6. Exod 12:2, Exod 13:4 

  7. Exod 14:8; Ps 105:38; Isa 52:12; Mic 2:13 

  8. Exod 12:29-30; Ps 105:36 

  9. Exod 12:12, Exod 18:11; Isa 19:1; Zeph 2:11; Rev 12:7-9 

  10. Exod 12:37 

  11. This appears to have been the capital of the land of Goshen, and the rendezvous of the Israelites. It is placed by Jerome in the extremity of Egypt, in the Arsenoitic nome. 

  12. Exod 13:20 

  13. Supposed to be the Suche mentioned by Pliny and the Scenas Mandrorum, in the Antonine Itinerary. The Editor of Calmet places it at Birket el Hadji, or "the Pilgrims' pool," a few miles east of Cairo. 

  14. This was evidently situated towards the north point of the Red sea. Calmet supposes it to be the same as Buthus or Butham, mentioned by Herodotus, who places it in Arabia, on the frontiers of Egypt. 

  15. Num 33:8; Exod 14:2, Exod 14:9 

  16. Calmet supposes this to be the Clysma of the Greeks, and the Kolzum of the Arabians. His learned Editor thinks the true situation of Baal–zephon was some miles more northerly than the present Suez. 

  17. Exod 14:21, Exod 14:22-31, Exod 15:22-26 

  18. Called Shur in Exodus; but Dr. Shaw says that Shur is a particular district of the wilderness of Etham. 

  19. Exod 15:27 

  20. Exod 16:1, Exod 17:1 

  21. Exod 17:1-8, Exod 19:2 

  22. Exod 16:1, Exod 19:1-2 

  23. Num 10:11-13, Num 10:33; Deut 1:6 

  24. That is, the graves of lust. Num 11:4, Num 11:34 

  25. Num 11:35 

  26. Num 12:16 

  27. Rithmah was a place in the wilderness of Paran, near Kadesh Barnea; probably so called from the great number of juniper trees, as the name signifies, growing in that district. 

  28. Probably the same as Rimmon, a city of Judah and Simeon, Josh 15:32, Josh 19:7. Num 33:19 

  29. Deut 1:1, Laban 

  30. This is supposed, apparently with good reason, by the Editor of Calmet, to be the same with the present El Arish, a village three quarters of a league from the Mediterranean, and the last stage in Syria, on the road to Egypt. 

  31. The Editor of Calmet, who supposes the Israelites to be now in the regular track from Gaza to Egypt, is of opinion that mount Shapher is the ancient name of mount Cassius, Catjeh, or Catie, a huge mole of sand, almost surrounded by the Mediterranean, on which was built a temple to Jupiter Cassius. Thevenot states, that at the village of Catie there is a well of water unpleasant for drinking; but two miles off, another whose water is good after standing a little. Num 33:24 

  32. This is supposed by Mr. C. Taylor, to be Ain el Mousa (probably a corruption of Moseroth) or fountains of Moses, at the head of the western gulf of the Red sea, about seven or eight miles east from Suez, seven or eight days' journey from Gaza, and five or six from Sinai. Deut 10:5, Mosera 

  33. Gen 36:27; Deut 10:6; 1Chr 1:43 

  34. Hor–hagidgad, Deut 10:7, Gudgodah 

  35. Mr. Taylor, who imagines the Israelites to be now in the track of the Mecca pilgrims, supposes Jotbathah, which is described as "a land of brooks of water," to be Callah Nahar, a torrent, said to be good water by Dr. Shaw. Deut 10:7, Jotbath 

  36. Probably at Abiah Ailana, or Sat el Acaba, stations nearer Accaba. Num 33:34 

  37. Dr. Shaw places this port on the western shore of the Elanitic gulf of the Red Sea. He says it is now called Meenah el Dsahab, or the golden port, by the Arabs; because it was from this place that Solomon sent his ships to Ophir. He supposes it to be about sixty miles from Sinai; and it is probable that it was near the present Accaba, i.e., the end (of the sea). Num 14:25; Deut 2:8; 1Kgs 9:26, 1Kgs 22:48, Ezion–geber, 2Chr 20:36 

  38. Num 13:21, Num 20:1, Num 27:14; Deut 32:51 

  39. Num 20:22-23, Num 21:4 

  40. Num 20:24-28; Deut 10:6, Deut 32:50 

  41. Num 21:1-3, Num 21:4-9 

  42. Num 21:4 

  43. Called Phainon by Eusebius, who places it between Petra and Zoar. Perhaps it is the present Tafyle, mentioned by Burckhardt. Num 33:42 

  44. Num 21:10 

  45. or, heaps of Abarim, Num 21:11 

  46. Num 32:34; Isa 15:2; Jer 48:18 

  47. Jer 48:22, Beth–diblathaim, Ezek 6:14, Diblath 

  48. These mountains were a ridge of rugged hills east of Jordan, and north and west of the Arnon. Nebo, Pisgah, and Peor, were but different names of the hills of which they were composed. Eusebius and Jerome inform us, that some part of them, as one went up to Heshbon, retained the old name of Abarim in their time; and that the part called Nebo was opposite Jericho, not far from the Jordan, six miles west from Heshbon, and seven east from Livias. Dr. Shaw describes them as "an exceeding high ridge of desolate mountains, no otherwise diversified than by a succession of naked rocks and precipices; rendered in some places the more frightful by a multiplicity of torrents, which fall on each side of them. This ridge is continued all along the eastern coast of the Dead sea." Mount Nebo is now called Djebel Attarous; and is described as a barren mountain, the highest point in the neighbourhood, with an uneven plain on the top. Burckhardt, Travels, pp. 369, 370. Num 21:20; Deut 32:49, Deut 34:1 

  49. Num 22:1 

  50. Probably the place called Bethsimath by Eusebius, east of Jordan, and about ten miles south of Jericho. Josh 13:20; Ezek 25:9 

  51. or, the plains of Shittim, This place, according to Josephus (Ant. 1. v. c. 1, § 1. Bell. 1. iv. c. 7 sec. 6), who calls it Abila, was 60 furlongs east of Jordan. Num 25:1-9; Exod 25:5, Exod 25:10, Exod 25:23; Josh 2:1 

  52. Num 33:48-49 

  53. Deut 7:1, Deut 9:1; Josh 3:17 

  54. Exod 23:24, Exod 23:31-33, Exod 34:12-17; Deut 7:2-5, Deut 7:25-26, Deut 12:2-3, Deut 12:30-31, Deut 20:16-18; Josh 11:11-12, Josh 23:7; Judg 2:2 

  55. Deut 32:8; Ps 24:1-2, Ps 115:16; Jer 27:5-6; Dan 4:17, Dan 4:25, Dan 4:32; Matt 20:15 

  56. Num 26:53-56 

  57. Heb. multiply his inheritance, Num 26:54 

  58. Heb. diminish his inheritance in the place, Josh 15:1-12, Josh 16:1-4, Josh 17:1-13, Josh 18:11-28, Josh 19:1-48 

  59. Exod 23:33; Deut 7:4, Deut 7:16; Josh 23:12-13; Judg 1:21-36, Judg 2:3; Ps 106:34-36; Ezek 28:24 

  60. Lev 18:28, Lev 20:23; Deut 28:63, Deut 29:28; Josh 23:15-16; 2Chr 36:17-20; Ezek 33:24-29; Luke 21:23-24