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Bamidbar 33

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33:1

The Forty-Two Encampments and the Command of Conquest

These are the journeys of the children of Yashar'al, which went forth out of the land of Mitzrayim with their armies under the hand of Mushah and Aharon.
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And Mushah wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
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And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Yashar'al went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Mitzrites.
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For the Mitzrites buried all their firstborn, which 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had smitten among them: upon their lo alahiym also 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 executed judgments.
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From Rameses to Siynay

And the children of Yashar'al removed from Rameses, and pitched in Succoth.
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And they departed from Succoth, and pitched in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.
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And they removed from Etham, and turned again unto Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-zephon: and they pitched before Migdol.
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And 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.
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And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.
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And they removed from Elim, and encamped by the Yam Suph.
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And they removed from the Yam Suph, and encamped in the wilderness of Sin.
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And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.
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And they departed from Dophkah, and encamped in Alush.
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And they removed from Alush, and encamped at Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.
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And they departed from Rephidim, and pitched in the wilderness of Siynay.
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From Siynay to Kadesh

And they removed from the desert of Siynay, and pitched at Kibroth-hattaavah.
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And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped at Hazeroth.
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And they departed from Hazeroth, and pitched in Rithmah.
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And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon-parez.
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And they departed from Rimmon-parez, and pitched in Libnah.
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And they removed from Libnah, and pitched at Rissah.
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And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.
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And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.
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And they removed from mount Shapher, and encamped in Haradah.
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And they removed from Haradah, and pitched in Makheloth.
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And they removed from Makheloth, and encamped at Tahath.
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And they departed from Tahath, and pitched at Tarah.
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And they removed from Tarah, and pitched in Mithcah.
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And they went from Mithcah, and pitched in Hashmonah.
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And they departed from Hashmonah, and encamped at Moseroth.
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And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene-yaakan.
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And they removed from Bene-yaakan, and encamped at Hor-hagidgad.
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And they went from Hor-hagidgad, and pitched in Yotbathah.
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And they removed from Yotbathah, and encamped at Ebronah.
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And they departed from Ebronah, and encamped at Etziyun-gaber.
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And they removed from Etziyun-gaber, and pitched in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
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The Death of Aharon at Mount Hor

And they removed from Kadesh, and pitched in mount Hor, in the edge of the land of Edom.
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And Aharon the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Yashar'al were come out of the land of Mitzrayim, in the first day of the fifth month.
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And Aharon was a hundred and twenty and three years old when he died in mount Hor.
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And king Arad the Kena’anite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Kena’an, heard of the coming of the children of Yashar'al.
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From Mount Hor to the Plains of Moab

And they departed from mount Hor, and pitched in Zalmonah.
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And they departed from Zalmonah, and pitched in Punon.
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And they departed from Punon, and pitched in Oboth.
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And they departed from Oboth, and pitched in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.
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And they departed from Iyim, and pitched in Dibon-gad.
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And they removed from Dibon-gad, and encamped in Almon-diblathaim.
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And they removed from Almon-diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
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And they departed from the mountains of Abarim, and pitched in the plains of Moab by Yardan near Yaricho.
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And they pitched by Yardan, from Beth-yesimoth even unto Habal-shittim in the plains of Moab.
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The Command to Purge the Land of Kena’an

And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 spake unto Mushah in the plains of Moab by Yardan near Yaricho, saying,
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"Speak unto the children of Yashar'al, and say unto them, When ye are passed over Yardan into the land of Kena’an;"
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"Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:"
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"And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it."
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"And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man's inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit."
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"But 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 pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell."
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"Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them."