Chapter 33
1 As Israel traveled from Egypt under the command of Moses and Aaron,
2 Moses kept a list of the places they camped, just as the Lord had instructed. Here is the record of their journey:
3 After the Israelites left Rameses, they camped at Succoth,
4 and from there, they moved their camp to Etham on the edge of the desert.
5 Then they turned back toward Pi-Hahiroth, east of Baal-Zephon, and camped near Migdol.
6 They left Pi-Hahiroth, crossed the Red Sea, then walked three days into the Etham Desert and camped at Marah.
7 Next, they camped at Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees.
8 They left Elim and camped near the Red Sea,
9 then turned east and camped along the western edge of the Sinai Desert.
10 They left Rephidim and finally reached the Sinai Desert.
11 When they left Kadesh, they came to Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.
12 That’s where the Lord commanded Aaron the priest to go to the top of the mountain. Aaron died there on the first day of the fifth month, 40 years after the Israelites left Egypt.
13 He was 123 years old at the time.
14 It was then that the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Southern Desert of Canaan, heard that Israel was headed that way.
15 and finally in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho.
16 Their camp stretched from Beth-Jeshimoth to Acacia.
17 While Israel was camped in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho, the Lord told Moses
18 to give the people of Israel this message: When you cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan,
19 you must force out the people living there. Destroy their idols and tear down their altars.
20 Then settle in the land—I have given it to you as your own.
21 I will show you how to divide the land among the tribes, according to the number of clans in each one, so that the larger tribes will have more land than the smaller ones.
22 If you don’t force out all the people there, they will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your back. They will always be trouble for you,
23 and I will treat you as severely as I planned on treating them.