The Forty-Two Journeys of the Israelites

1And these are the stages of the children of Israel, as they went out from the land of Egypt with their host by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2And Moses wrote their removals and their stages, by the word of the Lord: and these are the stages of their journeying. 3They departed from Ramesses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the passover the children of Israel went forth with a high hand before all the Egyptians. 4And the Egyptians buried those that died of them, even all that the Lord smote, every first-born in the land of Egypt; also the Lord executed vengeance on their gods.

5And the children of Israel departed from Ramesses, and encamped in Socchoth: 6and they departed from Socchoth and encamped in Buthan, which is a part of the wilderness. 7And they departed from Buthan and encamped at the mouth of Iroth, which is opposite Beel-sepphon, and encamped opposite Magdol. 8And they departed from before Iroth, and crossed the middle of the sea into the wilderness; and they went a journey of three days through the wilderness, and encamped in Picriae. 9And they departed from Picriae, and came to Aelim; and in Aelim were twelve fountains of water, and seventy palm-trees, and they encamped there by the water. 10And they departed from Aelim, and encamped by the Red Sea. 11And they departed from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin. 12And they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Raphaca. 13And they departed from Raphaca, and encamped in Aelus. 14And they departed from Aelus, and encamped in Raphidin; and there was no water there for the people to drink. 15And they departed from Raphidin, and encamped in the wilderness of Sina. 16And they departed from the wilderness of Sina, and encamped at the Graves of Lust.

17And they departed from the Graves of Lust, and encamped in Aseroth. 18And they departed from Aseroth, and encamped in Rathama. 19And they departed from Rathama, and encamped in Remmon Phares. 20And they departed from Remmon Phares, and encamped in Lebona. 21And they departed from Lebona, and encamped in Ressan. 22And they departed from Ressan, and encamped in Makellath. 23And they departed from Makellath, and encamped in Saphar. 24And they departed from Saphar, and encamped in Charadath. 25And they departed from Charadath, and encamped in Makeloth. 26And they departed from Makeloth, and encamped in Kataath. 27And they departed from Kataath, and encamped in Tarath. 28And they departed from Tarath, and encamped in Mathecca. 29And they departed from Mathecca, and encamped in Selmona. 30And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Masuruth. 31And they departed from Masuruth, and encamped in Banaea. 32And they departed from Banaea, and encamped in the mountain Gadgad. 33And they departed from the mountain Gadgad, and encamped in Etebatha. 34And they departed from Etebatha, and encamped in Ebrona. 35And they departed from Ebrona, and encamped in Gesion Gaber. 36And they departed from Gesion Gaber, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin; and they departed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in the wilderness of Pharan; this is Cades. 37And they departed from Cades, and encamped in mount Or near the land of Edom.

38And Aaron the priest went up by the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year of the departure of the children of Israel from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month. 39And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old, when he died in mount Or.

40And Arad the Chananitish king (he too dwelt in the land of Chanaan) having heard when the children of Israel were entering the land—

41then they departed from mount Or, and encamped in Selmona. 42And they departed from Selmona, and encamped in Phino. 43And they departed from Phino, and encamped in Oboth. 44And they departed from Oboth, and encamped in Gai, on the other side Jordan on the borders of Moab. 45And they departed from Gai, and encamped in Daebon Gad. 46And they departed from Daebon Gad, and encamped in Gelmon Deblathaim. 47And they departed from Gelmon Deblathaim, and encamped on the mountains of Abarim, over against Nabau. 48And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped on the west of Moab, at Jordan by Jericho. 49And they encamped by Jordan between Aesimoth, as far as Belsa to the west of Moab.

Canaanites to Be Destroyed

50And the Lord spoke to Moses at the west of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying, 51Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Ye are to pass over Jordan into the land of Chanaan. 52And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars. 53And ye shall destroy all the inhabitants of the land, and ye shall dwell in it, for I have given their land to you for an inheritance. 54And ye shall inherit their land according to your tribes; to the greater number ye shall give the larger possession, and to the smaller ye shall give the less possession; to whatsoever part a man's name shall go forth by lot, there shall be his property: ye shall inherit according to the tribes of your families. 55But if ye will not destroy the dwellers in the land from before you, then it shall come to pass that whomsoever of them ye shall leave shall be thorns in your eyes, and darts in your sides, and they shall be enemies to you on the land on which ye shall dwell; 56and it shall come to pass that as I had determined to do to them, so I will do to you.