For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the Lord had given them.
And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying,
‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me,
none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.’
And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, 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.
And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!
For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”
but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance.
For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war,
and every armed man of you will pass 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 after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and be sure your sin will find you out.
And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead,
but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders.”
So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel.
And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession.
However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the Lord has said to your servants, we will do.
We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.
And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built.
And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it.
And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.
These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
Moses wrote down their starting places, stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places.
They set out from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, whom the Lord had struck down among them. On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.
So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at Succoth.
And they set out from Succoth and camped at Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.
And they set out from before Hahiroth and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea.
And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Sin.
And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah.
And they set out from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.
And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.
And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh).
And they set out from Kadesh and camped at Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.
And Aaron the priest went up Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month.
And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.
And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab.
And they set out from Almon-diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho;
they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
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