Numbers 33
Numbers 33:1 These are the phases of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies, being guided by Moses and Aaron.
Numbers 33:2 Moses wrote down their starting places, phase by phase, by command of Yahveh, and these are their phases according to their starting places.
Numbers 33:3 They advanced from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
Numbers 33:4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom Yahveh had struck down among them. Yahveh also executed judgments against their gods.
Numbers 33:5 So the people of Israel advanced from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
Numbers 33:6 And they advanced from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the open country.
Numbers 33:7 And they advanced from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped at the face of Migdol.
Numbers 33:8 And they advanced from where Hahiroth could be seen and passed through the midst of the sea into the open country, and they went a three days’ journey in the open country of Etham and camped at Marah.
Numbers 33:9 And they advanced from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim, there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
Numbers 33:10 And they advanced from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
Numbers 33:11 And they advanced from the Red Sea and camped in the open country of Sin.
Numbers 33:12 And they advanced from the open country of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Numbers 33:13 And they advanced from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
Numbers 33:14 And they advanced from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
Numbers 33:15 And they advanced from Rephidim and camped in the open country of Sinai.
Numbers 33:16 And they advanced from the open country of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
Numbers 33:17 And they advanced from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
Numbers 33:18 And they advanced from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
Numbers 33:19 And they advanced from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
Numbers 33:20 And they advanced from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
Numbers 33:21 And they advanced from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
Numbers 33:22 And they advanced from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
Numbers 33:23 And they advanced from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
Numbers 33:24 And they advanced from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
Numbers 33:25 And they advanced from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
Numbers 33:26 And they advanced from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
Numbers 33:27 And they advanced from Tahath and camped at Terah.
Numbers 33:28 And they advanced from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
Numbers 33:29 And they advanced from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
Numbers 33:30 And they advanced from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
Numbers 33:31 And they advanced from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
Numbers 33:32 And they advanced from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
Numbers 33:33 And they advanced from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
Numbers 33:34 And they advanced from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
Numbers 33:35 And they advanced from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
Numbers 33:36 And they advanced from Ezion-geber and camped in the open country of Zin (that is, Kadesh).
Numbers 33:37 And they advanced from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
Numbers 33:38 And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of Yahveh and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
Numbers 33:39 And Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
Numbers 33:40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
Numbers 33:41 And they advanced from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
Numbers 33:42 And they advanced from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
Numbers 33:43 And they advanced from Punon and camped at Oboth.
Numbers 33:44 And they advanced from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.
Numbers 33:45 And they advanced from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
Numbers 33:46 And they advanced rom Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
Numbers 33:47 And they advanced from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, at the face of Nebo.
Numbers 33:48 And they advanced from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
Numbers 33:49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Numbers 33:50 And Yahveh spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and this is what he said,
Numbers 33:51 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
Numbers 33:52 then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from in the sight of you and destroy all their sculptured images and destroy all their metal images and exterminate[1] all their high places.
Numbers 33:53 And you will take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given the land to you to possess it.
Numbers 33:54 You will inherit the land by lot according to your clans. To a large tribe, you will give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe, you will give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. According to the tribes of your fathers, you will inherit.
Numbers 33:55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from in the sight of you, then those of them whom you let remain will be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land where you stay.
Numbers 33:56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.”
[1] שָׁמַד = exterminate.
Numbers 33 quotes:
The present chapter is mainly devoted to an account of the various stages and stations, the encampments and removals, of the children of Israel on their march through the wilderness, embracing the time from their depart ure from Egypt to their entrance into Canaan . Thus was intrinsically a very memorable part of their history, and divine wisdom saw fit thatMoses should write and transmit to posterity a journal of their extraordinary travels. In executing this order he recapitulates the principal stopping-places on their long journey , amounting to forty-two in number, occasionally reciting the important events that occurred here and there at different points in their progress.”
Bush, George. Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Numbers. New York: [publisher not identified], 1858. p. 457.
“These journeys were not so long; but what principally characterized them was their crookedness, their zigzag course. They might have reached Canaan in a brief time had they fully believed and obeyed the Lord ; but unbelief and disobedience made their journeys through the wilderness long and tedious.
In three short months they could easily have reached Canaan from Egypt, with all their flocks and herds and all that they possessed ; but they were forty long years in their journeys thitherward. Nor did they dwell very long in one place. The pillar of cloud and of fire was ever directing them to a change in the place of their encampment. Perhaps they made only an average stay of about a year in one place ; and this was all the rest they were permitted to have. How truly do these facts illustrate the Christian’s character and course! How many after their conversion never seem to push on or to march right forward into Canaan!”
DUNN, Lewis R. The Gospel in the Book of Numbers. Hunt & Eaton: New York, 1889. p. 246.
“The word which is rendered journey appears to denote primarily the breaking up of the encampments, which lasted for very different periods, and which, during the protracted wanderings in the wilderness, may have been of the average duration of a twelvemonth. The list of the encampments is expressly said to have been written by Moses, and it served as a permanent memorial, on the one hand, of the sin and rebellion of the nation, and, on the other hand, of the faithfulness and longsuffering of God in leading and sustaining His people throughout their sojourn in the wilderness.”
Ellicott, C. J. The Fourth Book of Moses, Called Numbers. London: Cassell & Co, 1850. p. 203.
Numbers 33 links:
a specific walk
against their gods
discovered
exterminate!
history recommenced
leaving room for the enemy
looking back as we walk
Perish the thought
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