Numbers 33:38-56 ▼

38 At the LORD’s command, the priest Aaron climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month in the fortieth year after the Israelites went out of the land of Egypt.

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

40 At that time the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard the Israelites were coming.

41 They traveled from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.

42 They traveled from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.

43 They traveled from Punon and camped at Oboth.

44 They traveled from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim on the border of Moab.

45 They traveled from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.

46 They traveled from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim.

47 They traveled from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the Abarim range facing Nebo.

48 They traveled from the Abarim range and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

49 They camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth to the Acacia Meadow on the plains of Moab.

50 The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho,

51 “Tell the Israelites: When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

52 you must drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you, destroy all their stone images and cast images, and demolish all their high places.

53 You are to take possession of the land and settle in it because I have given you the land to possess.

54 You are to receive the land as an inheritance by lot according to your clans. Increase the inheritance for a large clan and decrease it for a small one. Whatever place the lot indicates for someone will be his. You will receive an inheritance according to your ancestral tribes.

55 But if you don’t drive out the inhabitants of the land before you, those you allow to remain will become barbs for your eyes and thorns for your sides; they will harass you in the land where you will live.

56 And what I had planned to do to them, I will do to you.”