You shall send away both male and female; you shall send them outside the camp so that they will not defile their camp where I dwell in their midst.”

Whenever the cloud was lifted from over the tent, afterward the sons of Israel would then set out; and in the place where the cloud settled down, there the sons of Israel would camp.

Then he said, “Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.

Where am I to get meat to give to all this people? For they weep before me, saying, ‘Give us meat that we may eat!’

When they had gone up into the Negev, they came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai and Talmai, the descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

Thus they told him, and said, “We went in to the land where you sent us; and it certainly does flow with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

“Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them, ‘When you enter the land where I bring you,

You shall then deposit them in the tent of meeting in front of the testimony, where I meet with you.

From there they continued to Beer, that is the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Assemble the people, that I may give them water.”

The angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place where there was no way to turn to the right hand or the left.

Then Balak said to him, “Please come with me to another place from where you may see them, although you will only see the extreme end of them and will not see all of them; and curse them for me from there.”

Then they burned all their cities where they lived and all their camps with fire.