You must send away both male or female; send them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps where I dwell among them.”

Whenever the cloud was lifted up above the tent, the Israelites would set out; at the place where the cloud stopped, there the Israelites camped.

“Please don’t leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.

Where can I get meat to give all these people? For they are crying to me: ‘Give us meat to eat!’

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.

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.

But since My servant Caleb has a different spirit and has followed Me completely, I will bring him into the land where he has gone, and his descendants will inherit it.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land where I am bringing you,

Then place them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony where I meet with you.

The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and crimson yarn, and throw them onto the fire where the cow is burning.

These are the waters of Meribah, where the Israelites quarreled with the Lord, and He showed His holiness to them.

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 Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place where you can see them. You will only see the outskirts of their camp; you won’t see all of them. From there, put a curse on them for me.”

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites lived, as well as all their encampments,

They departed from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

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

The border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, where it will end at the Mediterranean Sea.

“Do not defile the land where you are, for bloodshed defiles the land, and there can be no atonement for the land because of the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of the person who shed it.

Do not make the land unclean where you live and where I reside; for I, Yahweh, reside among the Israelites.”