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1 These are the stages by which the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt in military formation under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
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These are the camping sites in the journey of the People of Israel after they left Egypt, deployed militarily under the command of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses wrote down their starting points, stage by stage, by command of the Lord; and these are their stages according to their starting places.
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Under God's instruction Moses kept a log of every time they moved, camp by camp:
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 Israelites went out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
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They marched out of Rameses the day after the Passover. It was the fifteenth day of the first month. They marched out heads high and confident.
4 while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. The Lord executed judgments even against their gods.
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The Egyptians, busy burying their firstborn whom God had killed, watched them go. God had exposed the nonsense of their gods.
5 So the Israelites set out from Rameses, and camped at Succoth.
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The People of Israel: left Rameses and camped at Succoth;
6 They set out from Succoth, and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
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left Succoth and camped at Etham at the edge of the wilderness;
7 They set out from Etham, and turned back to Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon; and they camped before Migdol.
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left Etham, circled back to Pi Hahiroth east of Baal Zephon, and camped near Migdol;
8 They set out from Pi-hahiroth, passed through the sea into the wilderness, went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
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left Pi Hahiroth and crossed through the Sea into the wilderness; three days into the Wilderness of Etham they camped at Marah;
9 They set out from Marah and came to Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there.
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left Marah and came to Elim where there were twelve springs and seventy palm trees; they camped there;
10 They set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
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left Elim and camped by the Red Sea;
11 They set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
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left the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin;
12 They set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
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left the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah;
13 They set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
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left Dophkah and camped at Alush;
14 They set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
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left Alush and camped at Rephidim where there was no water for the people to drink;
15 They set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
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left Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai;
16 They set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
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left the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah;
17 They set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
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left Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth;
18 They set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
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left Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah;
19 They set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.
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left Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez;
20 They set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah.
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left Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah;
21 They set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
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left Libnah and camped at Rissah;
22 They set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
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left Rissah and camped at Kehelathah;
23 They set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
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left Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher;
24 They set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
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left Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah;
25 They set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
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left Haradah and camped at Makheloth;
26 They set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
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left Makheloth and camped at Tahath;
27 They set out from Tahath and camped at Terah.
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left Tahath and camped at Terah;
28 They set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
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left Terah and camped at Mithcah;
29 They set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
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left Mithcah and camped at Hashmonah;
30 They set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
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left Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth;
31 They set out from Moseroth and camped at Bene-jaakan.
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left Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan;
32 They set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.
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left Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Haggidgad;
33 They set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
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left Hor Haggidgad and camped at Jotbathah;
34 They set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
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left Jotbathah and camped at Abronah;
35 They set out from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.
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left Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber;
36 They set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).
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left Ezion Geber and camped at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.
37 They set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
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After they left Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor at the border of Edom,
38 Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
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Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor at God's command and died there. It was the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the People of Israel had left Egypt.
39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
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Aaron was 123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.
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The Canaanite king of Arad - he ruled in the Negev of Canaan - heard that the People of Israel had arrived.
41 They set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
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They left Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah;
42 They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
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left Zalmonah and camped at Punon;
43 They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
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left Punon and camped at Oboth;
44 They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.
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left Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim on the border of Moab;
45 They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
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left Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad;
46 They set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.
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left Dibon Gad and camped at Almon Diblathaim;
47 They set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
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left Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim (Across-the-River), within sight of Nebo.
48 They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
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After they left the mountains of Abarim they camped on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho.
49 they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
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On the Plains of Moab their camp stretched along the banks of the Jordan from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim (Acacia Meadow).
50 In the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
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God spoke to Moses on the Plains of Moab at Jordan-Jericho:
51 Speak to the Israelites, and say to them: When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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"Tell the People of Israel, When you cross the Jordan into the country of Canaan,
52 you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.
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drive out the native population before you, destroy their carved idols, destroy their cast images, level their worship-mounds
53 You shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess.
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so that you take over the land and make yourself at home in it; I've given it to you. It's yours.
54 You shall apportion the land by lot according to your clans; to a large one you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small one you shall give a small inheritance; the inheritance shall belong to the person on whom the lot falls; according to your ancestral tribes you shall inherit.
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"Divide up the land by lot according to the size of your clans: Large clans will get large tracts of land, small clans will get smaller tracts of land. However the lot falls, that's it. Divide it up according to your ancestral tribes.
55 But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.
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"But if you don't drive out the native population, everyone you let stay there will become a cinder in your eye and a splinter in your foot. They'll give you endless trouble right in your own backyards.
56 And I will do to you as I thought to do to them.
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And I'll start treating you the way I planned to treat them."
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