Part I. The Writings on the Wall,
As in water face reflects face,
Proverbs 27:19,Genesis 15:7, Genesis 15:13-15, Hosea 11:1,Hosea 12:13, Hosea 11:3,Hosea 11:12, Hosea 11:2, Hosea 12:14, Hosea 11:12, Judges 5:14,Acts 7:29, 1 Chronicles 23:14-15 , Acts 7:30,Exodus 24:16, Numbers 3:14, Isaiah 19:1, Exodus 24:16,Exodus 24:15, Deuteronomy 4:11, Hosea 11:9, Acts 7:31, Deuteronomy 4:11,Acts 7:31, Acts 7:33,, Deuteronomy 4:12, Deuteronomy 4:36,Deuteronomy 5:4,Deuteronomy 5:4, Leviticus 11:45, Acts 7:32, Deuteronomy 5:23,Exodus 24:17, Exodus 3:14-16, Acts 7:34, Exodus 3:7, Acts 7:34, Hosea 11:10, Acts 7:34, Exodus 6:2-4, Deuteronomy 9:5, Exodus 12:40, Exodus 7:1-2, Leviticus 10:3,Exodus 7:2, Exodus 7:3, Exodus 3:16, Exodus 7:10, Deuteronomy 4:11, Isaiah 19:14, Exodus 2:23, Exodus 2:24-25, Exodus 5:4, Exodus 7:7,Exodus 9:1, Exodus 5:4, Acts 7:35, Exodus 5:2, Ezekiel 29:3, Job 41:15-16, Job 41:14, Jeremiah 4:22 Isaiah 50:2, Jeremiah 9:3,Isaiah 50:2, Jeremiah 9:3, Isaiah 50:2, Jeremiah 4:22, Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 27:11, Jeremiah 4:22, , Ezekiel 29:4, Isaiah 50:2,Ezekiel 29:4, Isaiah 50:2, Ezekiel 29:4, Isaiah 50:2, Job 7:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Psalm 9:15,Job 18:9, Job 18:8, Matthew 23:33, Ezekiel 29:5, Isaiah 49:23, Ezekiel 29:5, Isaiah 49:23, Psalm 140:5, Ecclesiastes 9:12, Psalm 55:23, Exodus 12:41, Exodus 12:38, Joshua 24:5-7,Number 33:3, Exodus 13:17, Exodus 13:19, Exodus 13:18, (Jeremiah 49:21)
Then He said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete…
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
“I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
“Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; From Ephraim were those whose roots were in Amalek. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to carved images. Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly Therefore his LORD will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him, and return his reproach upon him.
But Judah still walks with God, even with the Holy One who is faithful.
I. East of the Jordan, Egypt, The Children of Israel
Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
Now the sons of Moses the man of God were reckoned to the tribe of Levi. The sons of Moses were Gershon and Eliezer. “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush,
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,
Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst...and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Then Moses went up into the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst;When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight;
“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and as he drew near to observe, the Voice of the LORD came to him, And Moses trembled and dared not look.
‘Then the LORD said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form;Out of heaven He let you hear His Voice, And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. you only heard a Voice. The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. and you heard His Words out of the midst of the fire saying, ‘I am the God of your fathers--
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
“So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me,
The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt;
I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. “They shall walk after the LORD.
And now come, I will send you to Egypt.”’
Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
So the Lord said to him,
“Who has made man’s mouth?
Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?
Have not I, the Lord?
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name YHWH I was not known to them. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.
And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’” So Aaron held his peace.
You shall speak all that I command you. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt; So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the Lord commanded.
And the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst;And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit. and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.”
“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’
is the One God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?
I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.”
Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, ‘My River is my own; I have made it for myself.’ His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal; One is so near another that no air can come between them; Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
Why, when I came, was there no man?
They are not valiant for the truth on the earth.
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
For they proceed from evil to evil,
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
They have not known Me.
Or have I no power to deliver?
For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore, He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor. And they have no understanding.
But I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
Indeed, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
Then He said to him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”
Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years. And also the nation whom they serve I will judge; afterward they shall come out with great possessions. Now as for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall be buried at a good old age. But in the fourth generation they shall return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete…
“When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son. By a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt, and by a prophet he was preserved.
“I taught Ephraim to walk, taking them by their arms; But they did not know that I healed them.
“Ephraim has encircled Me with lies, And the house of Israel with deceit; From Ephraim were those whose roots were in Amalek. They sacrificed to the Baals, and burned incense to carved images. Ephraim provoked Him to anger most bitterly Therefore his LORD will leave the guilt of his bloodshed upon him, and return his reproach upon him.
But Judah still walks with God, even with the Holy One who is faithful.
I. East of the Jordan, Egypt, The Children of Israel
Moses fled and became a dweller in the land of Midian, where he had two sons.
Now the sons of Moses the man of God were reckoned to the tribe of Levi. The sons of Moses were Gershon and Eliezer. “And when forty years had passed, an Angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire in a bush,
Now the glory of the LORD rested on Mount Sinai, Then the LORD spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai,
Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud, and will come into Egypt; The idols of Egypt will totter at His presence, And the heart of Egypt will melt in its midst...and the cloud covered it six days. And on the seventh day He called to Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
Then Moses went up into the mountain, and the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. For I am God, and not man, The Holy One in your midst;When Moses saw it, he marveled at the sight;
“Then you came near and stood at the foot of the mountain, and as he drew near to observe, the Voice of the LORD came to him, And Moses trembled and dared not look.
‘Then the LORD said to him, “Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy ground.
You heard the sound of the words, but saw no form;Out of heaven He let you hear His Voice, And the LORD spoke to you out of the midst of the fire. you only heard a Voice. The LORD talked with you face to face on the mountain from the midst of the fire.
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy. and you heard His Words out of the midst of the fire saying, ‘I am the God of your fathers--
the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’
“So it was, when you heard the voice from the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that you came near to me,
The sight of the glory of the LORD was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain in the eyes of the children of Israel.
And God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.” And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations.’
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt;
I have surely seen the oppression of My people who are in Egypt; and have heard their cry because of their taskmasters, for I know their sorrows. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. “They shall walk after the LORD.
And now come, I will send you to Egypt.”’
Then Moses said to the Lord, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”
So the Lord said to him,
“Who has made man’s mouth?
Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind?
Have not I, the Lord?
And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I am the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as God Almighty, but by My name YHWH I was not known to them. I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.
It is not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart that you go in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lord your God drives them out from before you, and that He may fulfill the word which the Lord swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
So the Lord said to Moses: “See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet. And Aaron your brother shall tell Pharaoh to send the children of Israel out of his land.
And Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the Lord spoke, saying: ‘By those who come near Me I must be regarded as holy; And before all the people I must be glorified.’” So Aaron held his peace.
You shall speak all that I command you. And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and multiply My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt.
Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and say to them, ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to me, saying, “I have surely visited you and seen what is done to you in Egypt; So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh, and they did so, just as the Lord commanded.
And the mountain burned with fire to the midst of heaven, with darkness, cloud, and thick darkness. The Lord has mingled a perverse spirit in her midst;And they have caused Egypt to err in all her work, As a drunken man staggers in his vomit. and they cried out; and their cry came up to God because of the bondage.
So God heard their groaning, and God remembered His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God acknowledged them.
Moses was eighty years old and Aaron eighty-three, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh and tell him, ‘Thus says the Lord God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me.
Then the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you take the people from their work? Get back to your labor.”
“This Moses whom they rejected, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’
is the One God sent to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the Angel who appeared to him in the bush.
And Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey His voice to let Israel go?
I do not know the Lord, nor will I let Israel go.”
Speak, and say, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, I am against you, O Pharaoh king of Egypt, O great monster who lies in the midst of his rivers, Who has said, ‘My River is my own; I have made it for myself.’ His rows of scales are his pride, Shut up tightly as with a seal; One is so near another that no air can come between them; Who can open the doors of his face, With his terrible teeth all around?
They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.”
Why, when I came, was there no man?
They are not valiant for the truth on the earth.
Why, when I called, was there none to answer?
For they proceed from evil to evil,
Is My hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem?
They have not known Me.
Or have I no power to deliver?
For it is a people of no understanding; Therefore, He who made them will not have mercy on them, And He who formed them will show them no favor. And they have no understanding.
But I will put hooks in your jaws, and cause the fish of your rivers to stick to your scales;
Indeed, with My rebuke I dry up the sea,
I will bring you up out of the midst of your rivers, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, and all the fish in your rivers will stick to your scales and die of thirst.
Am I a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me?
“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:
‘You are like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas,
Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, and fouling their rivers.
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; And he walks into a snare. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, the net takes him by the heel in the net which they hid, their own foot is caught. And a snare lays hold of him.
Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
I will leave you in the wilderness, You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered.
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet.
I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah)
Like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them. But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
Am I a sea, or a sea serpent, That You set a guard over me?
“Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say to him:
‘You are like a young lion among the nations, and you are like a monster in the seas,
Bursting forth in your rivers, Troubling the waters with your feet, and fouling their rivers.
The nations have sunk down in the pit which they made; And he walks into a snare. For he is cast into a net by his own feet, the net takes him by the heel in the net which they hid, their own foot is caught. And a snare lays hold of him.
Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
I will leave you in the wilderness, You and all the fish of your rivers; You shall fall on the open field; You shall not be picked up or gathered.
They shall bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick up the dust of your feet.
I have given you as food to the beasts of the field and to the birds of the heavens.Then you will know that I am the Lord,
(The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set traps for me. Selah)
Like fish taken in a cruel net, like birds caught in a snare, So the sons of men are snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them. But You, O God, shall bring them down to the pit of destruction;
I. Wilderness of Shur, 3 days
Exodus 8:25-27, Exodus 8:28, 1 Kings 12:5, Numbers 10:33-34, Exodus 15:22, Numbers 10:34, Exodus 10:23, Exodus 15:22-23, Isaiah 38:17-18, Isaiah 22:4, Esther 4:16, Isaiah 22:5, Numbers 5:23, 2 Kings 14:26, Job 3:20-21, Acts 8:23, Numbers 33:9, Song of Solomom 7:8, Psalm 92:12-13, Ezekiel 2:4-5, Jeremiah 2:19, Jeremiah 2:20, Joshua 9:16, Ezekiel 3:27, Deuteronomy 29:29, Isaiah 29:23, Exodus 15:13,Ezekiel 2:8, (Psalm 74:13)
Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.”
So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away.
And Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He will command us.”
So he said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” And the people departed
So they departed from the mountain of the Lord on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them for the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur.
And the cloud of the Lord was above them by day when they went out from the camp.
They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’
As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
“For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds;And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’
And it happened at the end of three days, after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors who dwelt near them.
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. But when he sees his children,The work of My hands, in his midst,They will hallow My name,And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,And fear the God of Israel.
You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed;
You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.
But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
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Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron, and said, “Go, sacrifice to your God in the land.”
So Pharaoh said, “I will let you go, that you may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only you shall not go very far away.
And Moses said, “It is not right to do so, for we would be sacrificing the abomination of the Egyptians to the Lord our God. If we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, then will they not stone us?
We will go three days’ journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the Lord our God as He will command us.”
So he said to them, “Depart for three days, then come back to me.” And the people departed
So they departed from the mountain of the Lord on a journey of three days; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them for the three days’ journey, to search out a resting place for them.
So Moses brought Israel from the Red Sea; then they went out into the Wilderness of Shur.
And the cloud of the Lord was above them by day when they went out from the camp.
They did not see one another; nor did anyone rise from his place for three days. But all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings. And they went three days in the wilderness and found no water.
For they are impudent and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord GOD.’
As for them, whether they hear or whether they refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that a prophet has been among them.
Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you.
Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing
That you have forsaken the Lord your God,
And the fear of Me is not in you,”
Says the Lord God of hosts.
“For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds;And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’
And it happened at the end of three days, after they had made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors who dwelt near them.
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.
“The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all the words of this law. But when he sees his children,The work of My hands, in his midst,They will hallow My name,And hallow the Holy One of Jacob,And fear the God of Israel.
You in Your mercy have led forth The people whom You have redeemed;
You have guided them in Your strength To Your holy habitation.
But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Do not be rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you.”
Then the anger of the Lord was aroused against this land, to bring on it every curse that is written in this book. And the Lord uprooted them from their land in anger, in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
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And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—it came to pass that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
About six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.
Afterward I brought you out. ‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them. You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
... The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
So they cried out to the Lord; and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them.
And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt.
… Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
About six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds—a great deal of livestock. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared provisions for themselves.
Afterward I brought you out. ‘Then I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them. You divided the sea by Your strength;
You broke the heads of the sea serpents in the waters.
... The earth shakes at the noise of their fall; At the cry its noise is heard at the Red Sea.
So they cried out to the Lord; and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them.
And your eyes saw what I did in Egypt.
… Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
Nissan 15
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”
So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians.
Then it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, “Lest perhaps the people change their minds when they see war, and return to Egypt.”
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”
So God led the people around by way of the wilderness of the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up in orderly ranks out of the land of Egypt.
II. Wilderness of Etham
Exodus 12:37, Exodus 12:42, Exodus 13:20, Numbers 14:25, Exodus 13:21, Exodus 14:1-3, Exodus 14:8-10, Joel 2:5, Judges 5:22, Numbers 33:8, Joel 2:6, Exodus 15:18-20
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
It is a night of solemn observance to the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord, a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness.
Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness. So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.
They departed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap, Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
Therefore I said, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me
and if I perish, I perish!” Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity And of crying to the mountain.
Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.
For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them.
But the children of Israel went on dryland in the midst of the sea. For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul, Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.” They moved from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there. I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
...“The Lord shall reign forever and ever.”
‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water.
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dance.
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
It is a night of solemn observance to the Lord for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord, a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
So they took their journey from Succoth and camped in Etham at the edge of the wilderness.
Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night.
Now the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.
For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, ‘They are bewildered by the land; the wilderness has closed them in.’
And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; and the children of Israel went out with boldness. So the Egyptians pursued them, all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, his horsemen and his army, and overtook them camping by the sea beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon. And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them. So they were very afraid, and the children of Israel cried out to the Lord.
They departed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
Now when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter. Therefore the name of it was called Marah.
Indeed it was for my own peace That I had great bitterness; But You have lovingly delivered my soul from the pit of corruption,
For You have cast all my sins behind Your back. For Sheol cannot thank You,
Death cannot praise You;
With a noise like chariots Over mountaintops they leap, Then the horses’ hooves pounded, The galloping, galloping of his steeds.
Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for Your truth.
Therefore I said, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me
and if I perish, I perish!” Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity And of crying to the mountain.
Before them the people writhe in pain; All faces are drained of color.
For the horses of Pharaoh went with his chariots and his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought back the waters of the sea upon them.
But the children of Israel went on dryland in the midst of the sea. For the Lord saw that the affliction of Israel was very bitter; and whether bond or free, there was no helper for Israel.
“Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul, Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;
For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and bound by iniquity.” They moved from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there. I said, “I will go up to the palm tree, I will take hold of its branches.” The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree,He shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Those who are planted in the house of the Lord Shall flourish in the courts of our God.
...“The Lord shall reign forever and ever.”
‘Then the priest shall write these curses in a book, and he shall scrape them off into the bitter water.
Then Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dance.
III. Wilderness of Sin
(Lyar 15)
Widerness of Sin (fifteenth day of the second month)
Exodus 16:1, Numbers 33:10-12,Exodus 16:1, Numbers 33:11-12, Exodus 17:1,Numbers 33:13, Numbers 14:25, Exodus 17:1, Numbers 33:14, Exodus 17:1, Exodus 17:2-3, Numbers 14:1-3, Exodus 19:8, Exodus 19:9, Numbers 14:26-27, Numbers 14:27-28, Deuteronomy 25:17-18, Ezekiel 1:15, Deuteronomy 20:1-3, Ezekiel 1:16, Isaiah 5:28, Joel 2:5, Ezekiel 1: 17-19, Ezekiel 1:21, Ezekiel 1:20, Ezekiel 10:9, Ezekiel 1:20, Ezekiel 1:21
On the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai,. They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
...Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord,
They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore, the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.”
So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the Lord?”
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims?
Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me?
I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.
Over mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. And their wheels like a whirlwind.
When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them. When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.
Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
…Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.
Widerness of Sin (fifteenth day of the second month)
Exodus 16:1, Numbers 33:10-12,Exodus 16:1, Numbers 33:11-12, Exodus 17:1,Numbers 33:13, Numbers 14:25, Exodus 17:1, Numbers 33:14, Exodus 17:1, Exodus 17:2-3, Numbers 14:1-3, Exodus 19:8, Exodus 19:9, Numbers 14:26-27, Numbers 14:27-28, Deuteronomy 25:17-18, Ezekiel 1:15, Deuteronomy 20:1-3, Ezekiel 1:16, Isaiah 5:28, Joel 2:5, Ezekiel 1: 17-19, Ezekiel 1:21, Ezekiel 1:20, Ezekiel 10:9, Ezekiel 1:20, Ezekiel 1:21
On the fifteenth day of the second month after they departed from the land of Egypt They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea and all the congregation of the children of Israel came to the Wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai,. They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
...Now the Amalekites and the Canaanites dwell in the valley; tomorrow turn and move out into the wilderness by the Way of the Red Sea.”
Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord,
They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink. Therefore, the people contended with Moses, and said, “Give us water, that we may drink.”
So Moses said to them, “Why do you contend with me? Why do you tempt the Lord?”
And the people thirsted there for water, and the people complained against Moses, and said, “Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?”
So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims?
Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?”
So Moses brought back the words of the people to the Lord. And the Lord said to Moses, “Behold, I come to you in the thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with you, and believe you forever.
And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, saying, “How long shall I bear with this evil congregation who complain against Me?
I have heard the complaints which the children of Israel make against Me. Say to them, ‘As I live,’ says the Lord, ‘just as you have spoken in My hearing, so I will do to you:
“Remember what Amalek did to you on the way as you were coming out of Egypt, how he met you on the way and attacked your rear ranks, all the stragglers at your rear, when you were tired and weary; and he did not fear God.
Over mountaintops they leap, Like the noise of a flaming fire that devours the stubble, like a strong people set in battle array.
The appearance of the wheels and their workings was like the color of beryl, and all four had the same likeness. The appearance of their workings was, as it were, a wheel in the middle of a wheel. And their wheels like a whirlwind.
When they moved, they went toward any one of four directions; they did not turn aside when they went As for their rims, they were so high they were awesome; and their rims were full of eyes, all around the four of them. When the living creatures went, the wheels went beside them; and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up. for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. And when I looked, there were four wheels by the cherubim, one wheel by one cherub and another wheel by each other cherub; the wheels appeared to have the color of a beryl stone.
Wherever the spirit wanted to go, they went, because there the spirit went; and the wheels were lifted together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels. When those went, these went; when those stood, these stood; and when those were lifted up from the earth, the wheels were lifted up together with them, for the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.
…Now as I looked at the living creatures, behold, a wheel was on the earth beside each living creature with its four faces.
IV. Wilderness of Sinai
Exodus 12:35, Exodus 40:16-18,Exodus 17:15, Numbers 1:1-3,Deuteronomy 20:1-4, Numbers 1:18-19, Numbers 1:20, Numbers 1:22, Numbers 1:24, Numbers 1:26, Numbers 1:28, Numbers 1:30, Numbers 1:32, Numbers 1:34, Numbers 1:36, Numbers 1:38, Numbers 1:40, Numbers 1:42, Numbers 1:45-46, Numbers 32:11, Exodus 17:9-11, 2 Chronicles 26:15, Nehemiah 3:27, Numbers 14:44, Genesis 37:22, Job 38:26-27, Numbers 16:33,1 Samuel 15:18, Exodus 17:8, Numbers 14:45, Exodus 17: 10-11, Joshua 11:6, 1 Samuel 14:48, Joshua 11:7, 1 Samuel 14:48, Nahum 2:3, Ezekiel 1:4-5, Genesis 28:12,Nahum 1:3,Nahum 2:4, Habakkuk 1:8, Exodus 17:13-14, Exodus 24:12-14, Numbers 33:15, . Exodus 19:1-2, Numbers 9:1-3, Numbers 3:5-6, Numbers 3:14-15, Numbers 3:11-13, Exodus 15:17, Numbers 10:11-13, Numbers 33:15, Exodus 19:1-2, Exodus 15:17, Numbers 33:16, Numbers 27:15-17, Esther 9:17, Numbers 9:2,Numbers 9:3, Numbers 9:5, Leviticus 7:37-38, 1 Samuel 10:18, Hosea 9:10,Judges 6:1, Hosea 9:10, Psalm 106:28, Numbers 25:16-18, Numbers 31:1-3, Numbers 31:6-8, Numbers 31:15-17, Joshua 22:17, Judges 6:1-3,Ezra 6:21,Judges 6:7, Judges 6:33
..Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.
And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; for he said, “Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people. And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai. from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually,
From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually,
From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel— all who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.” invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, next to the great projecting tower,
(But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.)
“Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, A wilderness in which there is no man;and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands,To satisfy the desolate waste,...So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit;
Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.
So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel.You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
And he gathered an army and attacked the Amalekites,
So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.
The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The Lord has His Way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one another in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
….So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God. And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying: “Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families; you shall number every male from a month old and above.”
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore, the Levites shall be Mine, because all the firstborn are Mine.
On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the Lord.” Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”
You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.
And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai In the third month (Sivan) after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying: “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar.
“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.” And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord Commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering, which the Lord Commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.
But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenthday, as well as on the fourteenth;And on the fourteenth of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had happened to them,
And said to the children of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all kingdoms and from those who oppressed you.’
“I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame;
Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord.They became an abomination like the thing they loved. And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Harass the Midianites, and attack them; for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the Lord on Midian.
Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and the signal trumpets in his hand. And they warred against the Midianites, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.
..Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they granted them what they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Thus Moses did; according to all that the Lord had commanded him, so he did.
And it came to pass in the first month of the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was raised up.
So Moses raised up the tabernacle, fastened its sockets, set up its boards, put in its bars, and raised up its pillars.
And Moses built an altar and called its name, The-Lord-Is-My-Banner; for he said, “Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying:
“Take a census of all the congregation of the children of Israel, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, every male individually,from twenty years old and above—all who are able to go to war in Israel. You and Aaron shall number them by their armies.
“When you go out to battle against your enemies, and see horses and chariots and people more numerous than you, do not be afraid of them; for the Lord your God is with you, who brought you up from the land of Egypt.
So it shall be, when you are on the verge of battle, that the priest shall approach and speak to the people. And he shall say to them, ‘Hear, O Israel: Today you are on the verge of battle with your enemies. Do not let your heart faint, do not be afraid, and do not tremble or be terrified because of them; for the Lord your God is He who goes with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.’
and they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month; and they recited their ancestry by families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and above, each one individually.
As the Lord commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the Wilderness of Sinai. from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war:
Now the children of Reuben, Israel’s oldest son, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names, every male individually,
From the children of Simeon, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, of those who were numbered, according to the number of names, every male individually,
From the children of Gad, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Judah, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Issachar, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Zebulun, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the sons of Joseph, the children of Ephraim, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Manasseh, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
From the children of Benjamin, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Dan, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Asher, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names
From the children of Naphtali, their genealogies by their families, by their fathers’ house, according to the number of names,
So all who were numbered of the children of Israel, by their fathers’ houses, from twenty years old and above, all who were able to go to war in Israel— all who were numbered were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.
‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,
And Moses said to Joshua, “Choose us some men and go out, fight with Amalek. Tomorrow I will stand on the top of the hill with the rod of God in my hand.” invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, next to the great projecting tower,
(But they presumed to go up to the mountaintop. Nevertheless, neither the ark of the covenant of the Lord nor Moses departed from the camp.)
“Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit which is in the wilderness, A wilderness in which there is no man;and do not lay a hand on him”—that he might deliver him out of their hands,To satisfy the desolate waste,...So they and all those with them went down alive into the pit;
Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.
Now Amalek came and fought with Israel in Rephidim. Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt in that mountain came down and attacked them, and drove them back as far as Hormah.
So Joshua did as Moses said to him, and fought with Amalek. And Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill. And so it was, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
But the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel.You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.”
And he gathered an army and attacked the Amalekites,
So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. and delivered Israel from the hands of those who plundered them.
The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
Then I looked, and behold, a whirlwind was coming out of the north, a great cloud with raging fire engulfing itself; and brightness was all around it and radiating out of its midst like the color of amber, out of the midst of the fire. and there the angels of God were ascending and descending on it. The Lord has His Way in the whirlwind and in the storm, And the clouds are the dust of His feet.
The chariots rage in the streets, They jostle one another in the broad roads; They seem like torches, They run like lightning. Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and more fierce than evening wolves. Their chargers charge ahead; Their cavalry comes from afar; They fly as the eagle that hastens to eat.
….So Joshua defeated Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in the book and recount it in the hearing of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”
Then the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and be there; and I will give you tablets of stone, and the law and commandments which I have written, that you may teach them.”
So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua, and Moses went up to the mountain of God. And he said to the elders, “Wait here for us until we come back to you. Indeed, Aaron and Hur are with you. If any man has a difficulty, let him go to them.”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying:
“Bring the tribe of Levi near, and present them before Aaron the priest, that they may serve him. Then the Lord spoke to Moses in the Wilderness of Sinai, saying: “Number the children of Levi by their fathers’ houses, by their families; you shall number every male from a month old and above.”
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Now behold, I Myself have taken the Levites from among the children of Israel instead of every firstborn who opens the womb among the children of Israel. Therefore, the Levites shall be Mine, because all the firstborn are Mine.
On the day that I struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I sanctified to Myself all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast. They shall be Mine: I am the Lord.” Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Consecrate to Me all the firstborn, whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and beast; it is Mine.”
You will bring them in and plant them In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
Now it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from above the tabernacle of the Testimony.
And the children of Israel set out from the Wilderness of Sinai on their journeys; They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai In the third month (Sivan) after the children of Israel had gone out of the land of Egypt, on the same day, they came to the Wilderness of Sinai. For they had departed from Rephidim, had come to the Wilderness of Sinai, and camped in the wilderness. So Israel camped there before the mountain.
In the mountain of Your inheritance, In the place, O Lord, which You have made For Your own dwelling, The sanctuary, O Lord, which Your hands have established.
They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying: “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
This was on the thirteenth day of the month of Adar.
“Let the children of Israel keep the Passover at its appointed time.
On the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time. According to all its rites and ceremonies you shall keep it.” And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the first month, at twilight, in the Wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord Commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did.
This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the trespass offering, the consecrations, and the sacrifice of the peace offering, which the Lord Commanded Moses on Mount Sinai, on the day when He commanded the children of Israel to offer their offerings to the Lord in the Wilderness of Sinai.
But the Jews who were at Shushan assembled together on the thirteenthday, as well as on the fourteenth;And on the fourteenth of the month they rested and made it a day of feasting and gladness.So they called these days Purim, after the name Pur. Therefore, because of all the words of this letter, what they had seen concerning this matter, and what had happened to them,
And said to the children of Israel, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of all kingdoms and from those who oppressed you.’
“I found Israel Like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers As the firstfruits on the fig tree in its first season.
But they went to Baal Peor, And separated themselves to that shame;
Then the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord.They became an abomination like the thing they loved. And ate sacrifices made to the dead.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Harass the Midianites, and attack them; for they harassed you with their schemes by which they seduced you in the matter of Peor and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a leader of Midian, their sister, who was killed in the day of the plague because of Peor.”
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying: “Take vengeance on the Midianites for the children of Israel. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.” So Moses spoke to the people, saying, “Arm some of yourselves for war, and let them go against the Midianites to take vengeance for the Lord on Midian.
Then Moses sent them to the war, one thousand from each tribe; he sent them to the war with Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, with the holy articles and the signal trumpets in his hand. And they warred against the Midianites, just as the Lord commanded Moses, and they killed all the males.
They killed the kings of Midian with the rest of those who were killed--Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, the five kings of Midian. Balaam the son of Beor they also killed with the sword.and drove them out before you and gave you their land.
And Moses said to them: “Have you kept all the women alive?
Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.
Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
”So the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites... the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the mountains. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in order to seek the Lord God of Israel.
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because of the Midianites, that the Lord Sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them,
“Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage;
Then all the Midianites and Amalekites, the people of the East, gathered together; and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
And Moses said to them: “Have you kept all the women alive?
Look, these women caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.
Now therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately.
Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
”So the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years, and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites... the children of Israel made for themselves the dens, the caves, and the strongholds which are in the mountains. So it was, whenever Israel had sown, Midianites would come up; also Amalekites and the people of the East would come up against them.
Then the children of Israel who had returned from the captivity ate together with all who had separated themselves from the filth of the nations of the land in order to seek the Lord God of Israel.
And it came to pass, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord because of the Midianites, that the Lord Sent a prophet to the children of Israel, who said to them,
“Thus says the Lord God of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of bondage;
Then all the Midianites and Amalekites, the people of the East, gathered together; and they crossed over and encamped in the Valley of Jezreel.
V. Wilderness of Zin
Numbers 33:35-36, Numbers 20:1, Exodus 16:2, 1 Kings 9:26, Deuteronomy 2:8, Deuteronomy 2:9-12,Genesis 14:7,Genesis 19:29, Deuteronomy 2:8, Genesis 14:6,Deuteronomy 2:1-3, Acts 7:36, Psalm 106:7, Pslam 106:9, Hebrews 11:29, Exodus 15:5,Exodus 15:10,Exodus 15:3, Numbers 20:12, Judges 11:16, Numbers 20:25-26, Numbers 20:22, Numbers 33:7, Judges 11:17, Numbers 32:13, Numbers 20:7-11, Deuteronomy 1:45-46, Numbers 20:13, Numbers 20:24, Deuteronomy 1:46, Joshua 24:7, Exodus 16:35, Nehemiah 9:21, Numbers 32:13, Nehemiah 9:20, Exodus 16:35, Nehemiah 9:22, Numbers 27:14, Hebrews 2:1, Hebrews 2:1-3, Numbers 27:14, 1 Samuel 12:20-21, Numbers 20:14 , Deuteronomy 1:28, Number 13:21-22, Joshua 14:15, Joshua 20:11, Deuteronomy 9:2, 1 Chronicles 20:6, Deuteronomy 2:10-11,Deuteronomy 2:20,Psalm 29:7-9, Hebrews 2:2-3, 2 Samuel 21:21, Psalm 124:1-3, Numbers 27:15-17, Numbers 27:16-17, Jeremiah 49:20, Jeremiah 49:22, Numbers 14:33, Ezekiel 29:13, Deuteronomy 8:1-3, Psalm 29:9, Joshua 14:10, Deuteronomy 9:1-3,Numbers 27:15-17, Jeremiah 29:11, Deuteronomy 11:10, Exodus 23:23-24, Exodus 23:28, Exodus 3:17, Exodus 23:28, Deuteronomy 1:23, Deuteronomy 1:22,Exodus 28:4, Exodus 28:40, Exodus 28:39-40, Exodus 28:31, Exodus 28:39, Exodus 28:7, Exodus 28:32, Exodus 28:40, Exodus 39:28, Exodus 28:32, Exodus 28:33, Exodus 28:32, Exodus 39:28, Exodus 28:2, Exodus 28:36, Isaiah 28:5,Exodus 28:37-38, Exodus 28:41-42, Exodus 28:15, Exodus 28:16, Exodus 28:22-28, Exodus Exodus 28:12, 28:11, Exodus 28:30, Zechariah 4:12,Exodus 30:25, Psalm 133:2-3, Psalm 133:2, Zechariah 4:13-14, Leviticus 10:6, Nahum 2:3, Ezekiel 1:7, Exodus 22:27, Genesis 38:18, Leviticus 8:9, Exodus 28:43, Exodus 22:7, Exodus 35:23, Exodus 36:19, Isaiah 28:20, Numbers 11:7,(Genesis 14:10)(2 Chronicles 20:2)
They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber. They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there. Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
(King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.)
“And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness. away from Elath and Ezion Geber, The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place,
(just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)
Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and attacked all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazezon Tamar (which is En Gedi). And the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and joined together in battle in the Valley of Siddim.(that is, the Salt Sea)
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.
(For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.)
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
We turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’”
“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.
“And the Lord spoke to me, saying: ‘You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, … As through the wilderness.By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.You blew with Your wind,The sea covered them;They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
for when Israel came up from Egypt, they walked through the wilderness as far as the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor.. and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor on the boundary of the land of Edom.
Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please let me pass through your land.” But the king of Edom would not heed. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained in Kadesh.
So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel,
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord As He commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them,
“Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”
Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
“Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.
“So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.
Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land.
Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.;
You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, …….they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
“Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations, And divided them into districts. For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes.” Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard… lest we drift away.
(These are the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)
“Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.
Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom.
“Thus says your brother Israel:
‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us, how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
Where can we go up?
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; in the mountains of Judah And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak),(Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).
(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt)
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant
whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,)
The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him; So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,” Let Israel now say— “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, When men rose up against us, Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying: “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd
(Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;)
Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”
Selah.
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
…..
“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber. They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh. Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there. Then the whole congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness.
(King Solomon also built a fleet of ships at Ezion Geber, which is near Elath on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.)
“And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, and the Horites in their mountain of Seir, as far as El Paran, which is by the wilderness. away from Elath and Ezion Geber, The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place,
(just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)
Then they turned back and came to En Mishpat (that is, Kadesh), and attacked all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites who dwelt in Hazezon Tamar (which is En Gedi). And the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and joined together in battle in the Valley of Siddim.(that is, the Salt Sea)
Now the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled; some fell there, and the remainder fled to the mountains.
(For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.)
And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when He overthrew the cities in which Lot had dwelt.
We turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.
Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’”
“Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.
“And the Lord spoke to me, saying: ‘You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward. He brought them out, after he had shown wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red Sea, and in the wilderness forty years Our fathers in Egypt did not understand Your wonders; They did not remember the multitude of Your mercies, but rebelled by the sea--the Red Sea and it dried up; So He led them through the depths, … As through the wilderness.By faith they passed through the Red Sea as by dry land, whereas the Egyptians, attempting to do so, were drowned. The depths have covered them; They sank to the bottom like a stone.You blew with Your wind,The sea covered them;They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
The LORD is a man of war; The LORD is His name.
Then the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not believe Me, to hallow Me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.”
for when Israel came up from Egypt, they walked through the wilderness as far as the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor.. and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor on the boundary of the land of Edom.
Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, “Please let me pass through your land.” But the king of Edom would not heed. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
And in like manner they sent to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained in Kadesh.
So the Lord’s anger was aroused against Israel,
Then the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Take the rod; you and your brother Aaron gather the congregation together. Speak to the rock before their eyes, and it will yield its water; thus you shall bring water for them out of the rock, and give drink to the congregation and their animals.” So Moses took the rod from before the Lord As He commanded him.
And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock; and he said to them,
“Hear now, you rebels! Must we bring water for you out of this rock?”
Then Moses lifted his hand and struck the rock twice with his rod; and water came out abundantly, and the congregation and their animals drank.
Then you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord would not listen to your voice nor give ear to you.
This was the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the Lord, and He was hallowed among them.
“Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.
“So you remained in Kadesh many days, according to the days that you spent there.
Then you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
And the children of Israel ate manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land.
Forty years You sustained them in the wilderness; They lacked nothing; Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell. and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was gone.;
You also gave Your good Spirit to instruct them, …….they ate manna until they came to the border of the land of Canaan.
“Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations, And divided them into districts. For in the Wilderness of Zin, during the strife of the congregation, you rebelled against My command to hallow Me at the waters before their eyes.” Therefore we must give the more earnest heed to the things we have heard… lest we drift away.
(These are the waters of Meribah, at Kadesh in the Wilderness of Zin.)
“Do not fear. You have done all this wickedness; yet do not turn aside from following the LORD, but serve the LORD with all your heart. And do not turn aside; for then you would go after empty things which cannot profit or deliver, for they are nothing.
Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom.
“Thus says your brother Israel:
‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us, how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers.
Where can we go up?
So they went up and spied out the land from the Wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near the entrance of Hamath. And they went up through the South and came to Hebron; in the mountains of Judah And the name of Hebron formerly was Kirjath Arba (Arba was the father of Anak),(Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim).
(Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt)
Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there. a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, where there was a man of great stature, who had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot, twenty-four in number; and he also was born to the giant
whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim. They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,)
The voice of the Lord divides the flames of fire. The voice of the Lord shakes the wilderness; The Lord shakes the Wilderness of Kadesh.
For if the word spoken through angels proved steadfast, and every transgression and disobedience received a just reward, how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation, which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed to us by those who heard Him; So when he defied Israel, Jonathan the son of Shimea, David’s brother, killed him.
“If it had not been the Lord who was on our side,” Let Israel now say— “If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, When men rose up against us, Then they would have swallowed us alive, When their wrath was kindled against us;
Then Moses spoke to the LORD, saying: “Let the LORD, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the LORD may not be like sheep which have no shepherd
(Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out;)
Behold, He shall come up and fly like the eagle, And your sons shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and bear the brunt of your infidelity, until your carcasses are consumed in the wilderness.
‘Yet, thus says the Lord God: “At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the peoples among whom they were scattered.
“Every commandment which I command you today you must be careful to observe, that you may live and multiply, and go in and possess the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers.
And you shall remember that the Lord your God led you all the way these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and test you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the Lord.
The voice of the Lord makes the deer give birth, and strips the forests bare; And in His temple everyone says, “Glory!”
Selah.
And now, behold, the Lord has kept me alive, as He said, these forty-five years, ever since the Lord spoke this word to Moses while Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now, here I am this day, eighty-five years old.
…..
“Hear, O Israel: You are to cross over the Jordan today, and go in to dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourself, cities great and fortified up to heaven, a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
Therefore, understand today that the Lord your God is He who goes over before you as a consuming fire. He will destroy them and bring them down before you; so you shall drive them out and destroy them quickly, as the Lord has said to you.
Then Moses spoke to the Lord, saying: “Let the Lord, the God of the spirits of all flesh, set a man over the congregation, who may go out before them and go in before them, who may lead them out and bring them in, that the congregation of the Lord may not be like sheep which have no shepherd.”
And these are the garments which they shall make:
a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest.
“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, “You shall skillfully weave the tunic of fine linen thread, and they shall make the ephod of gold,
“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue you shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make the sash of woven work. It shall have two shoulder straps joined at its two edges, and so it shall be joined together
There shall be an opening for his head in the middle of it; And you shall make hats for them, exquisite hats of fine linen, it shall have a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, all around its hem, so that it does not tear. short trousers of fine woven linen, for glory and beauty. “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet:
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty To the remnant of His people,
And you shall put it on a blue cord, that it may be on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban. So it shall be on Aaron’s forehead,
So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.
And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.
“You shall make the breastplate of judgment.
Artistically woven according to the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, you shall make it.
It shall be doubled into a square: a span shall be its length, and a span shall be its width.
“You shall make chains for the breastplate at the end, like braided cords of pure gold.
And you shall make two rings of gold for the breastplate, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Then you shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate; and the other two ends of the two braided chains you shall fasten to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in the front.
“You shall make two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which is on the inner side of the ephod.
And two other rings of gold you shall make, and put them on the two shoulder straps, underneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.
They shall bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod, using a blue cord, so that it is above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and so that the breastplate does not come loose from the ephod.
And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold.
And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord.
And these are the garments which they shall make:
a breastplate, an ephod, a robe, a skillfully woven tunic, a turban, and a sash. So they shall make holy garments for Aaron your brother and his sons, that he may minister to Me as priest.
“For Aaron’s sons you shall make tunics, “You shall skillfully weave the tunic of fine linen thread, and they shall make the ephod of gold,
“You shall make the robe of the ephod all of blue you shall make the turban of fine linen, and you shall make sashes for them and you shall make the sash of woven work. It shall have two shoulder straps joined at its two edges, and so it shall be joined together
There shall be an opening for his head in the middle of it; And you shall make hats for them, exquisite hats of fine linen, it shall have a woven binding all around its opening, like the opening in a coat of mail, all around its hem, so that it does not tear. short trousers of fine woven linen, for glory and beauty. “You shall also make a plate of pure gold and engrave on it, like the engraving of a signet:
HOLINESS TO THE LORD.
For a crown of glory and a diadem of beauty To the remnant of His people,
And you shall put it on a blue cord, that it may be on the turban; it shall be on the front of the turban. So it shall be on Aaron’s forehead,
So you shall put them on Aaron your brother and on his sons with him. You shall anoint them, consecrate them, and sanctify them, that they may minister to Me as priests.
And you shall make for them linen trousers to cover their nakedness; they shall reach from the waist to the thighs.
“You shall make the breastplate of judgment.
Artistically woven according to the workmanship of the ephod you shall make it: of gold, blue, purple, and scarlet thread, and fine woven linen, you shall make it.
It shall be doubled into a square: a span shall be its length, and a span shall be its width.
“You shall make chains for the breastplate at the end, like braided cords of pure gold.
And you shall make two rings of gold for the breastplate, and put the two rings on the two ends of the breastplate.
Then you shall put the two braided chains of gold in the two rings which are on the ends of the breastplate; and the other two ends of the two braided chains you shall fasten to the two settings, and put them on the shoulder straps of the ephod in the front.
“You shall make two rings of gold, and put them on the two ends of the breastplate, on the edge of it, which is on the inner side of the ephod.
And two other rings of gold you shall make, and put them on the two shoulder straps, underneath the ephod toward its front, right at the seam above the intricately woven band of the ephod.
They shall bind the breastplate by means of its rings to the rings of the ephod, using a blue cord, so that it is above the intricately woven band of the ephod, and so that the breastplate does not come loose from the ephod.
And you shall put the two stones on the shoulders of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. You shall set them in settings of gold.
And you shall put in the breastplate of judgment the Urim and the Thummim, and they shall be over Aaron’s heart when he goes in before the Lord.
And I further answered and said to him, “What are these two olive branches that drip into the receptacles of the two gold pipes from which the golden oil drains?”
an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer.
It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments.
Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”
And I said, “No, my lord.” So he said, “These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”
“Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die,
The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.
For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin
Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”
So she said, “Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place, that they do not incur iniquity and die.
an ointment compounded according to the art of the perfumer.
It is like the precious oil upon the head, Running down on the beard, The beard of Aaron, Running down on the edge of his garments.
Then he answered me and said, “Do you not know what these are?”
And I said, “No, my lord.” So he said, “These are the two anointed ones, who stand beside the Lord of the whole earth.”
“Do not uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, lest you die,
The shields of his mighty men are made red, The valiant men are in scarlet. Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the soles of calves’ feet. They sparkled like the color of burnished bronze.
For that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin
Then he said, “What pledge shall I give you?”
So she said, “Your signet and cord, and your staff that is in your hand.”
And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded Moses.
They shall be on Aaron and on his sons when they come into the tabernacle of meeting, or when they come near the altar to minister in the holy place, that they do not incur iniquity and die.
What will he sleep in?
And every man, with whom was found blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair, red skins of rams, and a covering of badger skins above that.For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
And every man, with whom was found blue, purple, and scarlet thread, fine linen, and goats’ hair, red skins of rams, and a covering of badger skins above that.For the bed is too short to stretch out on, And the covering so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.
Now the manna was like coriander seed, and its color like the color of bdellium.
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you to a land flowing with milk and honey.”’
so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’
so I took twelve of your men, one man from each tribe. “And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’
VI. Wilderness of Paran
Exodus 16:10, Numbers 13:1-3, Proverbs 23:33-35, Exodus 33:3, 2 Corinthians 13:5, Jeremiah 15:19 Numbers 13:3, Isaiah 18:2, 2 Kings 4:24, Isaiah 30:15,2 Kings 6:9-11, Leviticus 8:9, Leviticus 8:7, Exodus 23:15, Nahum 2:3, Deuteronomy 11:31, 2 Kings 2:23, Psalm 137:7, Psalm 24:9-10, Deuteronomy 1:22, Numbers 32:9, Psalm 18:9-10, Psalm 18:11, Psalm 110:2-3, 2 Kings 6:9, Isaiah 63:15, Psalm 40:4, Psalm 24:10, Deuteronomy 11:11-12, Deuteronomy 11: 8-9, Ezekiel 9: 11, Deuteronomy 1:20-21, Numbers 13:20, Numbers 13:31, Numbers 13:33, Numbers 13:32, Numbers 13:28, Joshua 9:11, 1 Samuel 10:6, Deuteronomy 26:9, 1 Samuel 9:11, 1 Samuel 9:18, Jeremiah 44:19, 1 Samuel 9:13, Genesis 33:5, Joshua 9:12-13, Joshua 9:6, 1 Samuel 11:2, Numbers 13:26, Numbers 13:25, Judges 18:8, Numbers 13:27-28, Numbers 13:26, Numbers 32:9, Numbers 13:23, Deuteronomy 1:25, Isaiah 2:7, 1 Samuel 9:24, Numbers 13:29 , Genesis 42:30, Numbers 32:9, 1 Samuel 11:7, Numbers 13:30, Judges 18:9, Numbers 13:31,Numbers 32:11-13, Numbers 13:33, Numbers 13:32, Numbers 13:28, Numbers 13:29, Psalm 137:7, Numbers 33:50-56, Joshua 5:1, Isaiah 28:21,Deuteronomy 1:5-7, Deuteronomy 1:29-33, Exodus 17:16, Acts 17:20, Deuteronomy 18:14-16, Numbers 33:1- 39, Job 26:14, 2 Peter 1:16, Joshua 5:1,Joshua 23:9, Numbers 32:10 (Numbers 32:6-7,Exodus 14:12)Numbers 16:14, Deuteronomy 1:27)
Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.”
Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
Now it came to pass, as Aaron spoke to the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the Lord appeared in the cloud.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the children of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers you shall send a man, everyone a leader among them.”
Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things. Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey; for I will not go up in your midst, lest I consume you on the way, for you are a stiff-necked people.”
Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you are disqualified.
Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, Then I will bring you back; It shall be a statute forever to him and his descendants after him.
So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide.”
“Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.” In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Look down from heaven,
And see from Your habitation,
“Beware that you do not pass this place,
And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded
And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him.
Girded with belts around their waists, Flowing turbans on their heads, All of them looking like captains,
The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.
Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, Then I will bring you back; It shall be a statute forever to him and his descendants after him.
So Moses sent them from the Wilderness of Paran according to the command of the Lord, all of them men who were heads of the children of Israel.
“Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth of skin, To a people terrible from their beginning onward, A nation powerful and treading down, Whose land the rivers divide.”
“Drive, and go forward; do not slacken the pace for me unless I tell you.” In quietness and confidence shall be your strength.”
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Look down from heaven,
And see from Your habitation,
“Beware that you do not pass this place,
And he put the turban on his head. Also on the turban, on its front, he put the golden plate, the holy crown, as the Lord had commanded
And he put the tunic on him, girded him with the sash, clothed him with the robe, and put the ephod on him; and he girded him with the intricately woven band of the ephod, and with it tied the ephod on him.
Girded with belts around their waists, Flowing turbans on their heads, All of them looking like captains,
The chariots come with flaming torches In the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.
For you will cross over the Jordan and go in to possess the land which the Lord your God is giving you, and you will possess it and dwell in it. And you shall be careful to observe all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.
And as he was going up the road, some youths came from the city and mocked him, and said to him,
Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!”
Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
“And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land And He rode upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind.
(He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies.)
Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying,
“Beware that you do not pass this place,
but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust,Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
Go up, you baldhead! Go up, you baldhead!”
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem,
Who said, “Raze it, raze it, To its very foundation!”
Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in.
“And every one of you came near to me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, and let them search out the land for us, and bring back word to us of the way by which we should go up, and of the cities into which we shall come.’
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land And He rode upon a cherub, and flew; He flew upon the wings of the wind.
(He made darkness His secret place; His canopy around Him was dark waters And thick clouds of the skies.)
Rule in the midst of Your enemies!
Your people shall be volunteers In the day of Your power; In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning, You have the dew of Your youth
And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying,
“Beware that you do not pass this place,
but the land which you cross over to possess is a land of hills and valleys, which drinks water from the rain of heaven, a land for which the Lord your God cares; the eyes of the Lord your God are always on it, from the beginning of the year to the very end of the year.
Blessed is that man who makes the Lord his trust,Who is this King of glory?
The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah
“Therefore you shall keep every commandment which I command you today, that you may be strong, and go in and possess the land which you cross over to possess, and that you may prolong your days in the land which the Lord swore to give your fathers, to them and their descendants, ‘a land flowing with milk and honey.’
Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said,
“I have done as You commanded me.”
And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.’
Just then, the man clothed with linen, who had the inkhorn at his side, reported back and said,
“I have done as You commanded me.”
And I said to you, ‘You have come to the mountains of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. Look, the Lord your God has set the land before you; go up and possess it, as the Lord God of your fathers has spoken to you; do not fear or be discouraged.’
whether the land is rich or poor; and whether there are forests there or not.
be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.”
….Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
be of good courage. And bring some of the fruit of the land.”
….Now the time was the season of the first ripe grapes.
But the men who had gone up with him said, “We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large;
….Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them,
“We are your servants; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”’
Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you.
He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey”;
As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them,
“Is the seer here?”
“Please tell me, where is the seer’s house?”
The women also said, As soon as you come into the city, you will surely find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now therefore, go up, for about this time you will find him.”
And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?”
...This bread of ours we took hot for our provision from our houses on the day we departed to come to you. But now look, it is dry and moldy. And these wineskins which we filled were new, and see, they are torn; and these our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
“We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes,and bring reproach on all Israel.”
...Now they departed and came back to Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Moses and Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. Then the spies came back to their brethren at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren said to them,
“What is your report?”
Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large;
they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying,
‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.’ Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures;
“Here it is, what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat; for until this time it has been kept for you,
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
“The man who is lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.
they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them
…And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
…Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said,
“Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”
And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. a people great and tall, the descendants of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the descendants of Anak?’
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large;
….Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, ‘Take provisions with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them,
“We are your servants; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”’
Then the Spirit of the Lord will come upon you, and you will prophesy with them and be turned into another man. And let it be, when these signs come to you, that you do as the occasion demands; for God is with you.
He has brought us to this place and has given us this land, “a land flowing with milk and honey”;
As they went up the hill to the city, they met some young women going out to draw water, and said to them,
“Is the seer here?”
“Please tell me, where is the seer’s house?”
The women also said, As soon as you come into the city, you will surely find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. For the people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; afterward those who are invited will eat. Now therefore, go up, for about this time you will find him.”
And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?”
...This bread of ours we took hot for our provision from our houses on the day we departed to come to you. But now look, it is dry and moldy. And these wineskins which we filled were new, and see, they are torn; and these our garments and our sandals have become old because of the very long journey.”
“We have come from a far country; now therefore, make a covenant with us.”
And Nahash the Ammonite answered them, “On this condition I will make a covenant with you, that I may put out all your right eyes,and bring reproach on all Israel.”
...Now they departed and came back to Aaron and all the congregation of the children of Moses and Israel in the Wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; And they returned from spying out the land after forty days. Then the spies came back to their brethren at Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brethren said to them,
“What is your report?”
Then they told him, and said: “We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large;
they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.
For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land and there cut down a branch with one cluster of grapes; they carried it between two of them on a pole. They also brought some of the pomegranates and figs. They also took some of the fruit of the land in their hands and brought it down to us; and they brought back word to us, saying,
‘It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.’ Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures;
“Here it is, what was kept back. It was set apart for you. Eat; for until this time it has been kept for you,
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
“The man who is lord of the land spoke roughly to us, and took us for spies of the country. But we said to him, ‘We are honest men; we are not spies.
they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the Lord had given them
…And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
…Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said,
“Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”
So they said,
“Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is very good.
Would You do nothing?
Do not hesitate to go, and enter to possess the land.
but the men who had gone up with him said,
"We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession.
Do not take us over the Jordan.”
‘Because the Lord hates us,
And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben:
“Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?
Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards.
Will you put out the eyes of these men?
We will not come up!”
He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
(the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’)
“Arise, let us go up against them. For we have seen the land, and indeed it is very good.
Would You do nothing?
Do not hesitate to go, and enter to possess the land.
but the men who had gone up with him said,
"We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we.”
Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession.
Do not take us over the Jordan.”
‘Because the Lord hates us,
And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben:
“Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
Now why will you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?
Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt, saying, ‘Let us alone that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness.” Moreover you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards.
Will you put out the eyes of these men?
We will not come up!”
He has brought us out of the land of Egypt to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.
(the Lord’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying, ‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’)
There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight.”Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the descendants of Anak, were there.
And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze it, raze it,To its very foundation!”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess. And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot.
You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you do well. Moreover, it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’”
The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying, “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
“Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.
for he said, “Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
(For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”)
Selah!
And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying,
“The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature.
Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anak there.
The Amalekites dwell in the land of the South; the Hittites, the Jebusites, and the Amorites dwell in the mountains; and the Canaanites dwell by the sea and along the banks of the Jordan.”
Remember, O Lord, against the sons of Edom
The day of Jerusalem, Who said, “Raze it, raze it,To its very foundation!”
Now the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, saying,
“Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan, then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, destroy all their engraved stones, destroy all their molded images, and demolish all their high places;
you shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, for I have given you the land to possess. And you shall divide the land by lot as an inheritance among your families; to the larger you shall give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller you shall give a smaller inheritance; there everyone’s inheritance shall be whatever falls to him by lot.
You shall inherit according to the tribes of your fathers. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then it shall be that those whom you let remain shall be irritants in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land where you do well. Moreover, it shall be that I will do to you as I thought to do to them.’”
The Lord will rise up as he did at Mount Perazim, he will rouse himself as in the Valley of Gibeon— to do his work, his strange work, and perform his task, his alien task.
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying, “The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying: ‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites, to all the neighboring places in the plain, in the mountains and in the lowland, in the South and on the seacoast, to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon, as far as the great river, the River Euphrates.
“Then I said to you, ‘Do not be terrified, or afraid of them. The Lord your God, who goes before you, He will fight for you, according to all He did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’
Yet, for all that, you did not believe the Lord your God, who went in the way before you to search out a place for you to pitch your tents, to show you the way you should go, in the fire by night and in the cloud by day.
for he said, “Because the Lord has sworn: the Lord will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.”
(For you are bringing some strange things to our ears. Therefore, we want to know what these things mean.”)
Selah!
Reviewed:
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.
Then the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.
They departed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
They moved from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.
They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
They moved from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah.
They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
They departed from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
They moved from Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Hagidgad.
They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
They moved from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
They moved from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.
Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. (month of Av)
Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:
They departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out with boldness in the sight of all the Egyptians. For the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had killed among them. Also on their gods the Lord had executed judgments.
Then the children of Israel moved from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
They departed from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
They moved from Etham and turned back to Pi Hahiroth, which is east of Baal Zephon; and they camped near Migdol.
They departed from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, went three days’ journey in the Wilderness of Etham, and camped at Marah.
They moved from Marah and came to Elim. At Elim were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees; so they camped there.
They moved from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
They moved from the Red Sea and camped in the Wilderness of Sin.
They journeyed from the Wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
They departed from Dophkah and camped at Alush.
They moved from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
They departed from Rephidim and camped in the Wilderness of Sinai.
They moved from the Wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth Hattaavah.
They departed from Kibroth Hattaavah and camped at Hazeroth.
They departed from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah.
They departed from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon Perez.
They departed from Rimmon Perez and camped at Libnah.
They moved from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
They journeyed from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah.
They went from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher.
They moved from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah.
They moved from Haradah and camped at Makheloth.
They moved from Makheloth and camped at Tahath.
They departed from Tahath and camped at Terah.
They moved from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
They went from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah.
They departed from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth.
They departed from Moseroth and camped at Bene Jaakan.
They moved from Bene Jaakan and camped at Hor Hagidgad.
They went from Hor Hagidgad and camped at Jotbathah.
They moved from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah.
They departed from Abronah and camped at Ezion Geber.
They moved from Ezion Geber and camped in the Wilderness of Zin, which is Kadesh.
They moved from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the boundary of the land of Edom.
Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of the Lord, and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. (month of Av)
Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
II. Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan: LAND OF THE GIANTS, towards the RISING SUN
Deuteronomy 4:48-49,Joshua 12:1-2, Numbers 21:26 Numbers 21:28,Josuah 12:3 Numbers 21:33, Joshua 12:4, Numbers 21:33, Joshua 12:4 -5, Numbers 21:33-34, Numbers 21:35, Joshua 12:6, Deuteronomy 4:41-43, Numbers 32:33, Psalm 136:19, Numbers 32:33, Joshua 13:12, Psalm 136:20, Joshua 9:10, Psalm 136:21, Nehemiah 9:22, Deuteronomy 3:11, Deuteronomy 3:13-14, Numbers 32:18-25, Deuteronomy 34:1-4, Deuteronomy 1:3-10, Deuteronomy 1:9-10, Nehemiah 10:29, Isaiah 59:19, Isaiah 41:25, Psalm 50:1, Psalm 113:2-4, Deuteronomy 4:46-48, Deuteronomy 3:21
EAST SIDE OF THE JORDAN (NAME OF KINGS CONQUERED BY MOSES)
from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion(that is, Hermon),
and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
These are the kings of the land whom the Children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:
One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok,which is the border of the Ammonites, For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, “For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon;
It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon. and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan
Deuteronomy 4:48-49,Joshua 12:1-2, Numbers 21:26 Numbers 21:28,Josuah 12:3 Numbers 21:33, Joshua 12:4, Numbers 21:33, Joshua 12:4 -5, Numbers 21:33-34, Numbers 21:35, Joshua 12:6, Deuteronomy 4:41-43, Numbers 32:33, Psalm 136:19, Numbers 32:33, Joshua 13:12, Psalm 136:20, Joshua 9:10, Psalm 136:21, Nehemiah 9:22, Deuteronomy 3:11, Deuteronomy 3:13-14, Numbers 32:18-25, Deuteronomy 34:1-4, Deuteronomy 1:3-10, Deuteronomy 1:9-10, Nehemiah 10:29, Isaiah 59:19, Isaiah 41:25, Psalm 50:1, Psalm 113:2-4, Deuteronomy 4:46-48, Deuteronomy 3:21
EAST SIDE OF THE JORDAN (NAME OF KINGS CONQUERED BY MOSES)
from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion(that is, Hermon),
and all the plain on the east side of the Jordan as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
These are the kings of the land whom the Children of Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the River Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the eastern Jordan plain:
One king was Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon and ruled half of Gilead, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, from the middle of that river, even as far as the River Jabbok,which is the border of the Ammonites, For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, “For fire went out from Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon;
It consumed Ar of Moab, The lords of the heights of the Arnon. and the eastern Jordan plain from the Sea of Chinneroth as far as the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), the road to Beth Jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan
The other king was Og king of Bashan and his territory, who was of the remnant of the giants,
who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Then the Lordsaid to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”
who dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, and reigned over Mount Hermon, over Salcah, over all Bashan, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and over half of Gilead to the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
Then the Lordsaid to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.”
So they defeated him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left him; and they took possession of his land.
These Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel had conquered;
and Moses the servant of the Lord had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan LAND OF THE GIANTS.
Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
For His mercy endures forever;
For His mercy endures forever— .
and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan—to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
And gave their land as a heritage,
For His mercy endures forever;
“Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations, And divided them into districts.
(Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?)
Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)
(We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”)
Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war, and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies from before Him, and the land is subdued before the Lord,
then afterward you may return and be blameless before the Lord and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. But if you do not do so, then take note,
you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying:
“Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
which is across from Jericho.
And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
Then the Lord said to him,
“This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying,
‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
(month of Shevat)
Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them,
after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon,
and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,
“The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying:
‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites,
Tribal Leaders Appointed
“And I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I alone am not able to bear you. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law,
which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:
So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun;When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
“I have raised up One from the north,And he shall come;From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name;And he shall come against princes as though mortar, As the potter treads clay.
The Mighty One, God the Lord,Has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to its going down.
Blessed be the name of the Lord From this time forth and forevermore!
From the rising of the sun to its going down The Lord’s name is to be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heaven(s).
in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated after they came out of Egypt. And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), “And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.
These Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel had conquered;
and Moses the servant of the Lord had given it as a possession to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
Cities of Refuge East of the Jordan LAND OF THE GIANTS.
Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unintentionally, without having hated him in time past, and that by fleeing to one of these cities he might live:
- Bezer in the wilderness on the plateau for the Reubenites,
- Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites,
- and Golan in Bashan for the Manassites.
- the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites
For His mercy endures forever;
- and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for Moses had defeated and cast out these
For His mercy endures forever— .
and all that He did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan—to Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth.
And gave their land as a heritage,
For His mercy endures forever;
“Moreover You gave them kingdoms and nations, And divided them into districts.
- So they took possession of the land of Sihon,The land of the king of Heshbon,
- And the land of Og king of Bashan.
(Is it not in Rabbah of the people of Ammon?)
Nine cubits is its length and four cubits its width, according to the standard cubit.
The rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to half the tribe of Manasseh. (All the region of Argob, with all Bashan, was called the land of the giants.
Jair the son of Manasseh took all the region of Argob, as far as the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and called Bashan after his own name, Havoth Jair, to this day.)
(We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance. For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”)
Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the Lord for the war, and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies from before Him, and the land is subdued before the Lord,
then afterward you may return and be blameless before the Lord and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. But if you do not do so, then take note,
you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying:
“Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah,
which is across from Jericho.
And the Lord showed him all the land of Gilead as far as Dan, all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the Western Sea, the South, and the plain of the Valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
Then the Lord said to him,
“This is the land of which I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying,
‘I will give it to your descendants.’ I have caused you to see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there.”
(month of Shevat)
Now it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spoke to the children of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him as commandments to them,
after he had killed Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon,
and Og king of Bashan, who dwelt at Ashtaroth in Edrei.
On this side of the Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses began to explain this law, saying,
“The Lord our God spoke to us in Horeb, saying:
‘You have dwelt long enough at this mountain. Turn and take your journey, and go to the mountains of the Amorites,
- to all the neighboring places in the plain,
- in the mountains and in the lowland,
- in the South and on the seacoast,
- to the land of the Canaanites and to Lebanon,
- as far as the great river,… the River Euphrates.
Tribal Leaders Appointed
“And I spoke to you at that time, saying: ‘I alone am not able to bear you. The Lord your God has multiplied you, and here you are today, as the stars of heaven in multitude.
these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law,
which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:
So shall they fear The name of the Lord from the west, And His glory from the rising of the sun;When the enemy comes in like a flood, The Spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard against him.
“I have raised up One from the north,And he shall come;From the rising of the sun he shall call on My name;And he shall come against princes as though mortar, As the potter treads clay.
The Mighty One, God the Lord,Has spoken and called the earth
From the rising of the sun to its going down.
Blessed be the name of the Lord From this time forth and forevermore!
From the rising of the sun to its going down The Lord’s name is to be praised.
The Lord is high above all nations, His glory above the heaven(s).
in the valley opposite Beth Peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel defeated after they came out of Egypt. And they took possession of his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun, from Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, even to Mount Sion (that is, Hermon), “And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Your eyes have seen all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings; so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.
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Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him!
But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
“Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came.
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up.
But as for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not be anxious about them, for they have been found.
And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
Is it not on you and on all your father’s house?”
And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.
The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort,
who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations;
... but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.
Selah!
So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel.
Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, And how small a whisper we hear of Him!
But the thunder of His power who can understand?”
For we did not follow cunningly devised fables when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyewitnesses of His majesty.
“Furthermore you sent for men to come from afar, to whom a messenger was sent; and there they came.
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up.
But as for your donkeys that were lost three days ago, do not be anxious about them, for they have been found.
And on whom is all the desire of Israel?
Is it not on you and on all your father’s house?”
And you washed yourself for them, painted your eyes, and adorned yourself with ornaments.
You sat on a stately couch, with a table prepared before it, on which you had set My incense and My oil.
The sound of a carefree multitude was with her, and Sabeans were brought from the wilderness with men of the common sort,
who put bracelets on their wrists and beautiful crowns on their heads.
For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations;
... but as for you, no one has been able to stand against you to this day.
Selah!
So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel.
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