1 These are the stages of the journey of the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt by their troops, led by Moses and Aaron.
2 At the LORD's command Moses recorded the places they set out from, stage by stage. These are their stages, by their starting points:
3 They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. The day after the Passover the children of Israel marched out defiantly, in full view of all the Egyptians,
4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the LORD had struck down among them; the LORD had also brought judgments on their gods.
5 So the children of Israel moved on from Rameses and encamped at Succoth.
6 They moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, at the edge of the wilderness.
7 They moved on from Etham, turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and encamped near Migdol.
8 They moved on from before Hahiroth, crossed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, traveled three days into the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.
9 They moved on from Marah and came to Elim, where there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
10 They moved on from Elim and encamped by the Red Sea.
11 They moved on from the Red Sea and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
12 They moved on from the wilderness of Sin and encamped at Dophkah.
13 They moved on from Dophkah and encamped at Alush.
14 They moved on from Alush and encamped at Rephidim, where the people had no water to drink.
15 They moved on from Rephidim and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 They moved on from the wilderness of Sinai and encamped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 They moved on from Kibroth-hattaavah and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 They moved on from Hazeroth and encamped at Rithmah.
19 They moved on from Rithmah and encamped at Rimmon-perez.
20 They moved on from Rimmon-perez and encamped at Libnah.
21 They moved on from Libnah and encamped at Rissah.
22 They moved on from Rissah and encamped at Kehelathah.
23 They moved on from Kehelathah and encamped at Mount Shepher.
24 They moved on from Mount Shepher and encamped at Haradah.
25 They moved on from Haradah and encamped at Makheloth.
26 They moved on from Makheloth and encamped at Tahath.
27 They moved on from Tahath and encamped at Terah.
28 They moved on from Terah and encamped at Mithkah.
29 They moved on from Mithkah and encamped at Hashmonah.
30 They moved on from Hashmonah and encamped at Moseroth.
31 They moved on from Moseroth and encamped at Bene-jaakan.
32 They moved on from Bene-jaakan and encamped at Hor-haggidgad.
33 They moved on from Hor-haggidgad and encamped at Jotbathah.
34 They moved on from Jotbathah and encamped at Abronah.
35 They moved on from Abronah and encamped at Ezion-geber.
36 They moved on from Ezion-geber and encamped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
37 They moved on from Kadesh and encamped at Mount Hor, at the border of the land of Edom.
38 At the LORD's command Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor, and there he died on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt.
39 Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard that the children of Israel were coming.
41 They moved on from Mount Hor and encamped at Zalmonah.
42 They moved on from Zalmonah and encamped at Punon.
43 They moved on from Punon and encamped at Oboth.
44 They moved on from Oboth and encamped at Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.
45 They moved on from Iyim and encamped at Dibon-gad.
46 They moved on from Dibon-gad and encamped at Almon-diblathaim.
47 They moved on from Almon-diblathaim and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, facing Nebo.
48 They moved on from the mountains of Abarim and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
49 Their camp along the Jordan in the plains of Moab stretched from Beth-jeshimoth to Abel-shittim.
50 In the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
51 "Tell the children of Israel: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 you are to drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved stones, destroy all their molten images, and tear down all their high places.
53 Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
54 Distribute the land by lot as an inheritance among your clans. To a larger clan give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller clan a smaller one. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that will be his. You are to inherit by the tribes of your fathers.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become splinters in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they will harass you in the land where you live.
56 And then I will do to you what I intended to do to them."