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1 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the LORD; and these are their stages according to their starting places.
3 They set out 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,
4 while the Egyptians were burying all their first-born, whom the LORD had struck down among them; upon their gods also the LORD executed judgments.
5 So the people of Israel set out from Rameses, and encamped at Succoth.
6 And they set out from Succoth, and encamped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
7 And they set out from Etham, and turned back to Pihahiroth, which is east of Baalzephon; and they encamped before Migdol.
8 And they set out from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped at Marah.
9 And they set out from Marah, and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they encamped there.
10 And they set out from Elim, and encamped by the Red Sea.
11 And they set out from the Red Sea, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
12 And they set out from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped at Dophkah.
13 And they set out from Dophkah, and encamped at Alush.
14 And they set out from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
15 And they set out from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.
16 And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped at Kibrothhattaavah.
17 And they set out from Kibrothhattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
18 And they set out from Hazeroth, and encamped at Rithmah.
19 And they set out from Rithmah, and encamped at Rimmonperez.
20 And they set out from Rimmonperez, and encamped at Libnah.
21 And they set out from Libnah, and encamped at Rissah.
22 And they set out from Rissah, and encamped at Kehelathah.
23 And they set out from Kehelathah, and encamped at Mount Shepher.
24 And they set out from Mount Shepher, and encamped at Haradah.
25 And they set out from Haradah, and encamped at Makheloth.
26 And they set out from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
27 And they set out from Tahath, and encamped at Terah.
28 And they set out from Terah, and encamped at Mithkah.
29 And they set out from Mithkah, and encamped at Hashmonah.
30 And they set out from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
31 And they set out from Moseroth, and encamped at Benejaakan.
32 And they set out from Benejaakan, and encamped at Horhaggidgad.
33 And they set out from Horhaggidgad, and encamped at Jotbathah.
34 And they set out from Jotbathah, and encamped at Abronah.
35 And they set out from Abronah, and encamped at Eziongeber.
36 And they set out from Eziongeber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).
37 And they set out from Kadesh, and encamped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
38 And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the LORD, 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.
39 And Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
41 And they set out from Mount Hor, and encamped at Zalmonah.
42 And they set out from Zalmonah, and encamped at Punon.
43 And they set out from Punon, and encamped at Oboth.
44 And they set out from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the territory of Moab.
45 And they set out from Iyim, and encamped at Dibongad.
46 And they set out from Dibongad, and encamped at Almondiblathaim.
47 And they set out from Almondiblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 And they set out from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
49 they encamped by the Jordan from Bethjeshimoth as far as Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.
50 And the LORD said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho,
51 "Say to the people of Israel, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places;
53 and you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
54 You shall inherit the land by lot according to your families; to a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance; wherever the lot falls to any man, that shall be his; according to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as pricks in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell.
56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them."
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