1 T hese are the travels of the people of Israel, when Moses and Aaron led them out from the land of Egypt by their armies.

2 M oses wrote down the starting places of their travels, as the Lord told him. These are their travels by their starting places.

3 T hey traveled from Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover the people of Israel started out strong in heart in front of all the Egyptians.

4 T he Egyptians were burying all their first-born whom the Lord had killed among them. The Lord had punished their gods also.

5 T hen the people of Israel traveled from Rameses and stayed in Succoth.

6 T hey traveled from Succoth and stayed in Etham, beside the desert.

7 T hey went from Etham and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, east of Baal-zephon, and stayed at Migdol.

8 T hen they traveled from Hahiroth and passed through the sea into the desert. They traveled for three days in the desert of Etham, and stayed at Marah.

9 T hey left Marah and came to Elim. There were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees in Elim, and they stayed there.

10 T hen they traveled from Elim and stayed by the Red Sea.

11 T hey left the Red Sea and stayed in the Desert of Sin.

12 T hey traveled from the Desert of Sin, and stayed at Dophkah.

13 T hen they left Dophkah and stayed at Alush.

14 T hey traveled from Alush and stayed at Rephidim. It was there that the people had no water to drink.

15 T hey went from Rephidim and stayed in the Desert of Sinai.

16 T hey traveled from the Desert of Sinai, and stayed at Kibroth-hattaavah.

17 T hey went from Kibroth-hattaavah and stayed at Hazeroth.

18 T hey left Hazeroth and stayed at Rithmah.

19 T hen they went from Rithmah and stayed at Rimmon-perez.

20 T hey traveled from Rimmon-perez, and stayed at Libnah.

21 T hey left Libnah, and stayed at Rissah.

22 T hen they went from Rissah and stayed at Kehelathah.

23 T hey went from Kehelathah and stayed at Mount Shepher.

24 T hey traveled from Mount Shepher and stayed at Haradah.

25 T hey left Haradah and stayed at Makheloth.

26 T hen they traveled from Makheloth, and stayed at Tahath.

27 T hey traveled from Tahath, and stayed at Terah.

28 T hey went from Terah and stayed at Mithkah.

29 T hey left Mithkah and stayed at Hashmonah.

30 T hen they left Hashmonah and stayed at Moseroth.

31 T hey went from Moseroth and stayed at Benejaakan.

32 T hey traveled from Benejaakan, and stayed at Hor-haggidgad.

33 T hey went from Hor-haggidgad and stayed at Jotbathah.

34 T hen they left Jotbathah and stayed at Abronah.

35 T hey went from Abronah and stayed at Ezion-geber.

36 T hey went from Ezion-geber and stayed in the Desert of Zin, that is, Kadesh.

37 A nd they traveled from Kadesh, and stayed at Mount Hor, beside the land of Edom.

38 T hen Aaron the religious leader went up to Mount Hor, as the Lord told him. He died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had left the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.

39 A aron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

40 T he Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

41 T hen the people traveled from Mount Hor, and stayed at Zalmonah.

42 T hey left Zalmonah, and stayed at Punon.

43 T hey went from Punon and stayed at Oboth.

44 T hen they left Oboth and stayed at Iye-abarim, beside Moab.

45 T hey traveled from Iyim, and stayed at Dibon-gad.

46 T hey went from Dibon-gad and stayed at Almon-diblathaim.

47 T hey left Almon-diblathaim and stayed in the mountains of Abarim, near Nebo.

48 T hey traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and stayed in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho.

49 A nd they stayed by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abelshittim in the plains of Moab.

50 T hen the Lord said to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan near Jericho,

51 “ Say to the people of Israel, ‘You will cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan.

52 T hen drive out all the people living in the land in front of you. Destroy all their cut stones, and all their man-made gods, and all their high places.

53 T ake the land for your own and live in it. For I have given the land to you.

54 Y our families will receive land by drawing names. The larger families should be given more land. The smaller families should be given less land. When a man’s name is drawn, that land will be his. You will receive land by the family groups of your fathers.

55 D rive out the people who live in the land in front of you. If you do not, then those who are allowed to stay will be like sharp pieces in your eyes and like thorns in your sides. They will trouble you in the land where you live.

56 A nd I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’”