¹ And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.

² Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.

³ And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.

⁴ Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.

⁵ And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.

⁶ Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.

⁷ Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.

⁸ And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.

⁹ So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.

¹⁰ Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.

¹¹ And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.

¹² And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.

¹³ From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:

¹⁴ As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;

¹⁵ The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.

¹⁶ From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

¹⁷ Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:

¹⁸ The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:

¹⁹ And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:

²⁰ And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.

²¹ And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

²² Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.

²³ And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.

²⁴ But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.

²⁵ And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.

²⁶ For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.

²⁷ So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:

²⁸ For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

²⁹ Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.

³⁰ They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.

³¹ So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.

³² And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

³³ Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.

³⁴ And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon.

³⁵ So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.

¹ These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt in their armies, under the direction of Moses and Aaron.

² And the stages of their journey on their way out were put down in writing by Moses at the order of the Lord: these are the stages of their journey and the way they went.

³ On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians,

⁴ While the Egyptians were placing in the earth the bodies of their sons on whom the Lord had sent destruction: and their gods had been judged by him.

⁵ So the children of Israel went from Rameses and put up their tents in Succoth.

⁶ And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.

⁷ And from Etham, turning back to Pi-hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon, they put up their tents before Migdol.

⁸ And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.

⁹ And from Marah they went on to Elim: and in Elim there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees; and they put up their tents there.

¹⁰ And they went on from Elim and put up their tents by the Red Sea.

¹¹ Then from the Red Sea they went on and put up their tents in the waste land of Sin.

¹² And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up their tents in Dophkah.

¹³ And they went on from Dophkah, and put up their tents in Alush.

¹⁴ And they went on from Alush, and put up their tents in Rephidim, where there was no drinking-water for the people.

¹⁵ And they went on from Rephidim, and put up their tents in the waste land of Sinai.

¹⁶ And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put up their tents in Kibroth-hattaavah.

¹⁷ And they went on from Kibroth-hattaavah, and put up their tents in Hazeroth.

¹⁸ And they went on from Hazeroth, and put up their tents in Rithmah.

¹⁹ And they went on from Rithmah, and put up their tents in Rimmon-perez.

²⁰ And they went on from Rimmon-perez, and put up their tents in Libnah.

²¹ And they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents in Rissah.

²² And they went on from Rissah, and put up their tents in Kehelathah.

²³ And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their tents in Mount Shepher.

²⁴ And they went on from Mount Shepher, and put up their tents in Haradah.

²⁵ And they went on from Haradah, and put up their tents in Makheloth.

²⁶ And they went on from Makheloth, and put up their tents in Tahath.

²⁷ And they went on from Tahath, and put up their tents in Terah.

²⁸ And they went on from Terah, and put up their tents in Mithkah.

²⁹ And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents in Hashmonah.

³⁰ And they went on from Hashmonah, and put up their tents in Moseroth.

³¹ And they went on from Moseroth, and put up their tents in Bene-jaakan.

³² And they went on from Bene-jaakan, and put up their tents in Hor-haggidgad.

³³ And they went on from Hor-haggidgad, and put up their tents in Jotbathah.

³⁴ And they went on from Jotbathah, and put up their tents in Abronah.

³⁵ And they went on from Abronah, and put up their tents in Ezion-geber.

³⁶ And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).

³⁷ And they went on from Kadesh, and put up their tents in Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸ And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

³⁹ Aaron was a hundred and twenty-three years old at the time of his death in Mount Hor.

⁴⁰ And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in the land of Canaan.

⁴¹ And from Mount Hor they went on, and put up their tents in Zalmonah.

⁴² And they went on from Zalmonah, and put up their tents in Punon.

⁴³ And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in Oboth.

⁴⁴ And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in Iye-abarim at the edge of Moab.

⁴⁵ And they went on from Iyim, and put up their tents in Dibon-gad.

⁴⁶ And from Dibon-gad they went on, and put up their tents in Almon-diblathaim.

⁴⁷ And from Almon-diblathaim they went on, and put up their tents in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

⁴⁸ And they went on from the mountains of Abarim, and put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho;

⁴⁹ Planting their tents by the side of Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the lowlands of Moab.

⁵⁰ And in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, the Lord said to Moses,

⁵¹ Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

⁵² See that all the people of the land are forced out from before you, and put to destruction all their pictured stones, and all their metal images, and all their high places:

⁵³ And take the land for yourselves, for your resting-place: for to you I have given the land as your heritage.

⁵⁴ And you will take up your heritage in the land by the decision of the Lord, to every family its part; the greater the family the greater its heritage, and the smaller the family the smaller will be its heritage; wherever the decision of the Lord gives to any man his part, that will be his; distribution will be made to you by your fathers' tribes.

⁵⁵ But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.

⁵⁶ And it will come about that as it was my purpose to do to them, so I will do to you.