Moses went out and told the people the words of the Lord. He brought 70 men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Suddenly the Lord said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three come out to the tent of meeting.” So the three of them went out.

So they went up and scouted out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob near the entrance to Hamath.

They went up through the Negev and came to Hebron, where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were living. Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.

The men went back to Moses, Aaron, and the entire Israelite community in the Wilderness of Paran at Kadesh. They brought back a report for them and the whole community, and they showed them the fruit of the land.

They reported to Moses: “We went into the land where you sent us. Indeed it is flowing with milk and honey, and here is some of its fruit.

Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.

They got up early the next morning and went up the ridge of the hill country, saying, “Let’s go to the place the Lord promised, for we were wrong.”

Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

They went down alive into Sheol with all that belonged to them. The earth closed over them, and they vanished from the assembly.

Moses and Aaron went to the front of the tent of meeting,

Then Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly to the doorway of the tent of meeting. They fell down with their faces to the ground, and the glory of the Lord appeared to them.

Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly.

From there they went and camped at Zered Valley.

From there they went to Beer, the well the Lord told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.”

The princes dug the well;
the nobles of the people hollowed it out
with a scepter and with their staffs.

They went from the wilderness to Mattanah,

But Sihon would not let Israel travel through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan came out against them with his whole army to do battle at Edrei.

When he got up in the morning, Balaam saddled his donkey and went with the officials of Moab.

When the donkey saw the Angel of the Lord standing on the path with a drawn sword in His hand, she turned off the path and went into the field. So Balaam hit her to return her to the path.

The Angel of the Lord went ahead and stood in a narrow place where there was no room to turn to the right or the left.

Then the Angel of the Lord said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but you are to say only what I tell you.” So Balaam went with Balak’s officials.

When Balak heard that Balaam was coming, he went out to meet him at the Moabite city on the Arnon border at the edge of his territory.

So Balaam went with Balak, and they came to Kiriath-huzoth.

Balaam said to Balak, “Stay here by your burnt offering while I am gone. Maybe the Lord will meet with me. I will tell you whatever He reveals to me.” So he went to a barren hill.

Balaam then arose and went back to his homeland, and Balak also went his way.

Moses sent 1,000 from each tribe to war. They went with Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, in whose care were the holy objects and signal trumpets.

Moses, Eleazar the priest, and all the leaders of the community went to meet them outside the camp.

Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to war and the entire community.

Set aside a tribute for the Lord from what belongs to the fighting men who went out to war: one out of every 500 humans, cattle, donkeys, sheep, and goats.

The half portion for those who went out to war numbered:

337,500 sheep and goats,

After they went up as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, captured it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

Jair, a descendant of Manasseh, went and captured their villages, which he renamed Jair’s Villages.

Nobah went and captured Kenath with its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

These were the stages of the Israelites’ journey when they went out of the land of Egypt by their military divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.

They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the month. On the day after the Passover the Israelites went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians.

At the Lord’s command, Aaron the priest 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.