33:1-49

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Nu 33:1-36:13

PREPARATION FOR ENTRANCE INTO CANAAN

Summary of the journey from Egypt

(Nu 33:1-49)

Moses kept a record of places where Israel set up camps on the journey from Egypt to the plains of Moab. He records eleven camps between Egypt and Mount Sinai (Nu 33:1-15).

After the year-long camp at Sinai, the people moved through twenty camps to Ezion-geber. From there they came to Kadesh-barnea, from where their long wanderings of almost forty years began.

The book records no movements during this time (Nu 33:16-36).

In the fortieth year Israel left Kadesh-barnea and moved through nine camps to the plains of Moab (Nu 33:37-49).