1Two and forty journeys of the Israelites. 50The Canaanites are to be destroyed.
1THESE are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the 1hand of Moses and Aaron.
1 That is, by the leadership.
2And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys 2by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
2 Or, after the mouth, etc.
3Anda they departed from Rameses in the 3first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out 4with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.
a Exod. 12:37.
3 Called Abib, otherwise Nisan. See Exod. 12:2; 13:4: Deut. 1 on verse 3.
4 See Exod. 14 on verse 8.
45For the Egyptians buried all their firstborn, which the LORD had smitten among them: upon their gods also the LORD executed 6judgments.
5 Although the Egyptians by reason of these burials of their firstborn could not but be highly and bitterly incensed against the Israelites whom they saw depart before their eyes, yet God so daunted and disheartened them that they had not the courage to offend the children of Israel in the least degree or to stop and hinder their peaceable departure.
6 See Exod. 12 on verse 12 and compare Isa. 19:1.
5And the children of Israel removed from 7Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
7 See Gen. 47 on verse 11.
6Andb they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
b Exod. 13:20.
7Andc they removed from Etham, and turned again unto 8Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
c Exod. 14:2.
8 See Exod. 14 on verse 2.
8And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and pitched in Marah.d
d Exod. 15:22, 23.
9And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim:e and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
e Exod. 15:27.
10And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Red sea.
11And they removed from the Red sea, and encampedf in the wilderness of 9Sin.
f Exod. 16:1.
9 Where they murmured against the LORD, and first obtained the Manna. This wilderness is to be distinguished from other wilderness Zin or Tsin, verse 36.
12And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
13And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
14And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim,g where was no water for the people to drink.
g Exod. 17:1.
15And they departed from Rephidim, and pitchedh in the wilderness of Sinai.
h Exod. 19:1.
16And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitchedi at 10Kibroth-hattaavah.
i Num. 11:34, 35.
10 That is, the graves of lust.
17And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
18And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
19And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.
20And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
21And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
22And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
23And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
24And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
25And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
26And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
27And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
28And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
29And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
30And they departedj from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
j Deut. 10:6.
31And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-jaakan.
32And they removed from Bene-jaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
33And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Jotbathah.
34And they removed from Jotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
35And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Ezion-gaber.
36And they removed from Ezion-gaber, and pitchedk in the wilderness of 11Zin, which is Kadesh.
k Num. 20:1.
11 See Num. 13 on verse 21.
37And they removed from Kadesh, and pitchedl in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
l Num. 20:22.
38Andm Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor 12at the commandment of the LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the 13fifth month.
m Num. 20:25; Deut. 32:50.
12 That is according to God’s ordinance and command.
13 Called Ab by the Hebrews, and answering our July and August.
39And Aaron 14was an hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
14 Hebr. was a son of one hundred and twenty-three years.
40Andn king 15Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
n Num. 21:1.
15 Or, the king of Arad. See the history of this man, Num. 21:1, 2, 3 and the annotation there.
41And they departedo from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
o Num. 21:4.
42And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
43And they departed from Punon, and pitchedp in Oboth.
p Num. 21:10.
44And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in 16Ije-abarim, in the border of Moab.
16 Or, the small hills of Abarim; situated in the land of the Moabites, and separating the same from the land of the Ammonites. See verse 47.
45And they departed from Iim, and pitched in 17Dibon-gad.
17 In distinction from another Dibon, that was allotted to the children of Reuben, Joshua 13:15, 17.
46And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
47And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of 18Abarim, before 19Nebo.
18 Extending from about the Dead Sea or the south end of Arnon unto Nebo.
19 See Deut. 34:1.
48And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Jordan near 20Jericho.
20 That is, where this river runs along over against Jericho; and so elsewhere also.
49And they pitched by Jordan, from Beth-jesimoth even unto 21Abel-shittimq in the plains of Moab.
21 Some perceive that this is the same place, which is just called Shittim in Num. 25:1, and here called Abel-shittim by reason of the mourning and sorrow of the children of Israel, which they showed there, under the plague of the LORD.
q Num. 25:1; Joshua 2:1.
50¶And the LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying,
51Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Jordan into the land of Canaan;
52Thenr ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures,s and destroy all their 22molten images, and quite pluck down all their 23high places:
r Deut. 7:2, 3, etc.
s images carved in relief
22 Hebr. images of melting or molten things.
23 See Lev. 26 on verse 30.
53And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.
54And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and 24tot the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every 25man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.
24 See Num. 26 on verse 54.
t Num. 26:54.
25 Hebr. him.
55But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be 26pricksu in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall 27vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
26 That is, they shall become and be a perpetual vexation and sorrow to you; they shall deprive you of all your pleasure and peaceable enjoyment, and besides entice you to such sin as shall kindle My wrath against you. See Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3 and compare Exod. 23:33; 34:12; Deut. 7:16. The truth of this Divine threatening the Israelites found throughout, even to David’s time.
u Joshua 23:13; Judges 2:3; goads for driving cattle
27 Or, shall behave hostilely.
56Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.