They traveled from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.

They traveled from Hazeroth and camped in Rithmah.

They traveled from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez.

They traveled from Rimmon-perez and camped in Libnah.

They traveled from Libnah and camped at Rissah.

They traveled from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.

They traveled from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.

They traveled from Mount Shepher and camped in Haradah.

They traveled from Haradah and camped in Makheloth.

They traveled from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.

They traveled from Tahath and camped at Terah.

They traveled from Terah and camped in Mithcah.

They traveled from Mithcah and camped in Hashmonah.

They traveled from Hashmonah and camped in Moseroth.

They traveled from Moseroth and camped in Bene-jaakan.

They traveled from Bene-jaakan and camped at Hor-haggidgad.

They traveled from Hor-haggidgad and camped in Jotbathah.

They traveled from Jotbathah and camped in Abronah.

They traveled from Abronah and camped at Ezion-geber.

They traveled from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.

They traveled from Kadesh and camped in Mount Hor at the edge of the land of Edom.

They traveled from Mount Hor and camped in Zalmonah.

They traveled from Zalmonah and camped in Punon.

They traveled from Punon and camped in Oboth.

They traveled from Oboth and camped in Iye-abarim, on the border of Moab.

They traveled from Iim and camped in Dibon-gad.

They traveled from Dibon-gad and camped in Almon-diblathaim.

They traveled from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim before Nebo.

They traveled from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan River across from Jericho.

They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. He said:

your southern border will extend from the wilderness of Zin along the Edomite border, and your southern border will run eastward to the extremity of the Salt Sea,

and then the border will turn from the south to the Scorpion Ascent, continue to Zin, and then its direction will be from the south to Kadesh Barnea. Then it will go to Hazar Addar and pass over to Azmon.

There the border will turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and then its direction is to the sea.

"'And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

from Mount Hor you will draw a line to Lebo Hamath, and the direction of the border will be to Zedad.

"'For your eastern border you will draw a line from Hazar Enan to Shepham.

The border will run down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain, and the border will descend and reach the eastern side of the Sea of Chinnereth.

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

These are the names of the men: from the tribe of Judah, Caleb son of Jephunneh;

from the tribe of the Simeonites, Shemuel son of Ammihud;

from the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad son of Kislon;

and from the tribe of the Danites, a leader, Bukki son of Jogli.

From the Josephites, Hanniel son of Ephod, a leader from the tribe of Manasseh;

from the tribe of the Ephraimites, a leader, Kemuel son of Shiphtan;

from the tribe of the Zebulunites, a leader, Elizaphan son of Parnach;

from the tribe of the Issacharites, a leader, Paltiel son of Azzan;

from the tribe of the Asherites, a leader, Ahihud son of Shelomi;

and from the tribe of the Naphtalites, a leader, Pedahel son of Ammihud."

"Instruct the Israelites to give the Levites towns to live in from the inheritance the Israelites will possess. You must also give the Levites grazing land around the towns.

The grazing lands around the towns that you will give to the Levites must extend to a distance of 500 yards from the town wall.

"You must measure from outside the wall of the town on the east 1,000 yards, and on the south side 1,000 yards, and on the west side 1,000 yards, and on the north side 1,000 yards, with the town in the middle. This territory must belong to them as grazing land for the towns.

Now from these towns that you will give to the Levites you must select six towns of refuge to which a person who has killed someone may flee. And you must give them forty-two other towns.

The towns you will give must be from the possession of the Israelites. From the larger tribes you must give more; and from the smaller tribes fewer. Each must contribute some of its own towns to the Levites in proportion to the inheritance allocated to each.

And they must stand as your towns of refuge from the avenger in order that the killer may not die until he has stood trial before the community.

Then the heads of the family groups of the Gileadites, the descendant of Machir, the descendant of Manasseh, who were from the Josephite families, approached and spoke before Moses and the leaders who were the heads of the Israelite families.

Now if they should be married to one of the men from another Israelite tribe, their inheritance would be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. As a result, it will be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

And when the Jubilee of the Israelites is to take place, their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So their inheritance will be taken away from the inheritance of our ancestral tribe."

In this way the inheritance of the Israelites will not be transferred from tribe to tribe. But every one of the Israelites must retain the ancestral heritage.

And every daughter who possesses an inheritance from any of the tribes of the Israelites must become the wife of a man from any family in her father's tribe, so that every Israelite may retain the inheritance of his fathers.

No inheritance may pass from tribe to tribe. But every one of the tribes of the Israelites must retain its inheritance."

Now it is ordinarily an eleven-day journey from Horeb to Kadesh Barnea by way of Mount Seir.

I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

You complained among yourselves privately and said, "Because the Lord hates us he brought us from Egypt to deliver us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us!

Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.

The Amorite inhabitants of that area confronted you and chased you like a swarm of bees, striking you down from Seir as far as Hormah.

You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.

So we turned away from our relatives the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, from Elat and Ezion Geber, and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

As for the Avvites who lived in settlements as far west as Gaza, Caphtorites who came from Crete destroyed them and settled down in their place.)

Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:

We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.

From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon (it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us -- the Lord our God gave them all to us.

We captured all his cities at that time -- there was not a town we did not take from them -- sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the dominion of Og in Bashan.

But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.

So at that time we took the land of the two Amorite kings in the Transjordan from Wadi Arnon to Mount Hermon

This is the land we brought under our control at that time: The territory extending from Aroer by the Wadi Arnon and half the Gilead hill country with its cities I gave to the Reubenites and Gadites.

To the Reubenites and Gadites I allocated the territory extending from Gilead as far as Wadi Arnon (the exact middle of the wadi was a boundary) all the way to the Wadi Jabbok, the Ammonite border.

The Arabah and the Jordan River were also a border, from the sea of Chinnereth to the sea of the Arabah (that is, the Salt Sea), beneath the watershed of Pisgah to the east.

Do not add a thing to what I command you nor subtract from it, so that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I am delivering to you.

You have witnessed what the Lord did at Baal Peor, how he eradicated from your midst everyone who followed Baal Peor.

Then the Lord spoke to you from the middle of the fire; you heard speech but you could not see anything -- only a voice was heard.

Be very careful, then, because you saw no form at the time the Lord spoke to you at Horeb from the middle of the fire.

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

I invoke heaven and earth as witnesses against you today that you will surely and swiftly be removed from the very land you are about to cross the Jordan to possess. You will not last long there because you will surely be annihilated.

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

Indeed, ask about the distant past, starting from the day God created humankind on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether there has ever been such a great thing as this, or even a rumor of it.

Have a people ever heard the voice of God speaking from the middle of fire, as you yourselves have, and lived to tell about it?

Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

Their territory extended from Aroer at the edge of the Arnon valley as far as Mount Siyon -- that is, Hermon --

The Lord spoke face to face with you at the mountain, from the middle of the fire.

"I am the Lord your God, he who brought you from the land of Egypt, from the place of slavery.

The Lord said these things to your entire assembly at the mountain from the middle of the fire, the cloud, and the darkness with a loud voice, and that was all he said. Then he inscribed the words on two stone tablets and gave them to me.

Then, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness while the mountain was ablaze, all your tribal leaders and elders approached me.

You said, "The Lord our God has shown us his great glory and we have heard him speak from the middle of the fire. It is now clear to us that God can speak to human beings and they can keep on living.

Who is there from the entire human race who has heard the voice of the living God speaking from the middle of the fire as we have, and has lived?

for the Lord your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.