Chronological Plan

¹These are the journeys of the sons of Israel, by which they came out of the land of Egypt by their armies, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

²Moses recorded their starting places according to their journeys by the command of the LORD, and these are their journeys according to their starting places.

³Now they journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the sons of Israel started out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,

⁴while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn whom the LORD had fatally struck among them. The LORD had also executed judgments against their gods.

⁵Then the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses and camped in Succoth.

⁶They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

⁷Then they journeyed from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.

⁸They journeyed from Pi-hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea to the wilderness; and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.

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

¹⁰They journeyed from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.

¹¹And they journeyed from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.

¹²They journeyed from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.

¹³They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.

¹⁴And they journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim; now it was there that the people had no water to drink.

¹⁵And they journeyed from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.

¹⁶They journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷They journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

¹⁸They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.

¹⁹They journeyed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

²⁰They journeyed from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.

²¹They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

²²They journeyed from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.

²³They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

²⁴They journeyed from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.

²⁵They journeyed from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.

²⁶They journeyed from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

²⁷They journeyed from Tahath and camped at Terah.

²⁸They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.

²⁹They journeyed from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.

³⁰They journeyed from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.

³¹They journeyed from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.

³²They journeyed from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

³³They journeyed from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.

³⁴They journeyed from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.

³⁵They journeyed from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

³⁶They journeyed from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.

³⁷They journeyed from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month.

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

⁴⁰Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard about the coming of the sons of Israel.

⁴¹Then they journeyed from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

⁴²They journeyed from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

⁴³They journeyed from Punon and camped at Oboth.

⁴⁴They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, at the border of Moab.

⁴⁵They journeyed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶They journeyed from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷They journeyed from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸They journeyed from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab, by the Jordan opposite Jericho.

⁴⁹They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim, in the plains of Moab.

⁵⁰Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho, saying,

⁵¹“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵²you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from you, and destroy all their idolatrous sculptures, destroy all their cast metal images, and eliminate all their high places;

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

⁵⁴You shall maintain the land as an inheritance by lot according to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls to anyone, that shall be his. You shall pass on land as an inheritance according to the tribes of your fathers.

⁵⁵But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from you, then it will come about that those whom you let remain of them will be like thorns in your eyes and like pricks in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which you live.

⁵⁶And just as I plan to do to them, I will do to you.’ ”

¹Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

²“Command the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land of Canaan, this is the land that shall fall to you as an inheritance, that is, the land of Canaan according to its borders.

³Your southern region shall extend from the wilderness of Zin along the side of Edom, and your southern border shall extend from the end of the Salt Sea eastward.

⁴Then your border shall change direction from the south to the ascent of Akrabbim and continue to Zin, and its termination shall be to the south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall reach Hazaraddar and continue to Azmon.

⁵Then the border shall change direction from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and its termination shall be at the sea.

⁶‘As for the western border, you shall have the Great Sea, that is, its coastline; this shall be your western border.

⁷‘And this shall be your northern border: you shall draw your boundary from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.

⁸You shall draw a boundary from Mount Hor to the Lebo-hamath, and the termination of the border shall be at Zedad;

⁹and the border shall proceed to Ziphron, and its termination shall be at Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.

¹⁰‘For your eastern border you shall also draw a boundary from Hazar-enan to Shepham,

¹¹and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down and reach to the slope on the east side of the Sea of Chinnereth.

¹²And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its termination shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to its borders on all sides.’ ”

¹³So Moses commanded the sons of Israel, saying, “This is the land that you are to possess by lot, which the LORD has commanded to give to the nine and a half tribes.

¹⁴For the tribe of the sons of Reuben have received theirs according to their fathers’ households, and the tribe of the sons of Gad according to their fathers’ households, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their possession.

¹⁵The two and a half tribes have received their possession across the Jordan opposite Jericho, eastward toward the sunrise.”

¹⁶Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

¹⁷“These are the names of the men who shall assign the land to you as an inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

¹⁸And you shall take one leader of each tribe to assign the land as an inheritance.

¹⁹These are the names of the men: of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh.

²⁰Of the tribe of the sons of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud.

²¹Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon.

²²And of the tribe of the sons of Dan, a leader, Bukki the son of Jogli.

²³Of the sons of Joseph: of the tribe of the sons of Manasseh, a leader, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

²⁴Of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim, a leader, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan.

²⁵Of the tribe of the sons of Zebulun, a leader, Elizaphan the son of Parnach.

²⁶Of the tribe of the sons of Issachar, a leader, Paltiel the son of Azzan.

²⁷Of the tribe of the sons of Asher, a leader, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

²⁸Of the tribe of the sons of Naphtali, a leader, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.”

²⁹These are the ones whom the LORD commanded to apportion the inheritance to the sons of Israel in the land of Canaan.