CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Numbers 33 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/33.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">CEV</a> > Numbers 33</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/32.htm" title="Numbers 32">◄</a> Numbers 33 <a href="../numbers/34.htm" title="Numbers 34">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s1">Israel's Journey from Egypt to Moab</h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_1"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.1" class="v4_33_1">1</span>As Israel traveled from Egypt under the command of Moses and Aaron, </span><span class="v4_33_2"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.2" class="v4_33_2">2</span>Moses kept a list of the places they camped, just as the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had instructed. Here is the record of their journey:</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_3"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.3-Num.33.4" class="v4_33_3">3-4</span>Israel left the Egyptian city of Rameses on the fifteenth day of the first month.<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.3-Num.33.4!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> This was the day after the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had punished Egypt's gods by killing the first-born sons in every Egyptian family. So while the Egyptians were burying the bodies, they watched the Israelites proudly<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.3-Num.33.4!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> leave their country.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_5"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.5" class="v4_33_5">5</span>After the Israelites left Rameses, they camped at Succoth, </span><span class="v4_33_6"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.6" class="v4_33_6">6</span>and from there, they moved their camp to Etham on the edge of the desert. </span><span class="v4_33_7"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.7" class="v4_33_7">7</span>Then they turned back toward Pi-Hahiroth, east of Baal-Zephon, and camped near Migdol. </span><span class="v4_33_8"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.8" class="v4_33_8">8</span>They left Pi-Hahiroth,<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.8!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> crossed the Red Sea,<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.8!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> then walked three days into the Etham Desert and camped at Marah. </span><span class="v4_33_9"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.9" class="v4_33_9">9</span>Next, they camped at Elim, where there were 12 springs of water and 70 palm trees. </span><span class="v4_33_10"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.10" class="v4_33_10">10</span>They left Elim and camped near the Red Sea,<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.10!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v4_33_11"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.11" class="v4_33_11">11</span>then turned east and camped along the western edge of the Sinai Desert.<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v4_33_12"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.12-Num.33.14" class="v4_33_12">12-14</span>From there they went to Dophkah, Alush, and Rephidim, where they had no water.<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.12-Num.33.14!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span><span class="v4_33_15"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.15" class="v4_33_15">15</span>They left Rephidim and finally reached the Sinai Desert.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_16"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.16-Num.33.36" class="v4_33_16">16-36</span>As Israel traveled from the Sinai Desert to Kadesh in the Zin Desert, they camped at Kibroth-Hattaavah, Hazeroth, Rithmah, Rimmon-Perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelathah, Mount Shepher, Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, Terah, Mithkah, Hashmonah, Moseroth, Bene-Jaakan, Hor-Haggidgad, Jotbathah, Abronah, Ezion-Geber, and finally Kadesh. </span><span class="v4_33_37"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.37" class="v4_33_37">37</span>When they left Kadesh, they came to Mount Hor, on the border of Edom.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_38"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.38" class="v4_33_38">38</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.38!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> That's where the <span class="nd">Lord</span> commanded Aaron the priest to go to the top of the mountain. Aaron died there on the first day of the fifth month,<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.38!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> 40 years after the Israelites left Egypt. </span><span class="v4_33_39"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.39" class="v4_33_39">39</span>He was 123 years old at the time.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_40"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.40" class="v4_33_40">40</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.40!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> It was then that the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Southern Desert of Canaan, heard that Israel was headed that way.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_41"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.41-Num.33.47" class="v4_33_41">41-47</span>The Israelites left Mount Hor and headed toward Moab. Along the way, they camped at Zalmonah, Punon, Oboth, Iye-Abarim in the territory of Moab, Dibon-Gad, Almon-Diblathaim, at a place near Mount Nebo in the Abarim Mountains, </span><span class="v4_33_48"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.48" class="v4_33_48">48</span>and finally in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho. </span><span class="v4_33_49"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.49" class="v4_33_49">49</span>Their camp stretched from Beth-Jeshimoth to Acacia.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s Command To Conquer Canaan</h3><p class="par"><span class="v4_33_50"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.50" class="v4_33_50">50</span>While Israel was camped in the lowlands of Moab across the Jordan River from Jericho, the <span class="nd">Lord</span> told Moses </span><span class="v4_33_51"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.51" class="v4_33_51">51</span>to give the people of Israel this message:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v4_33_51">When you cross the Jordan River and enter Canaan, </span><span class="v4_33_52"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.52" class="v4_33_52">52</span>you must force out the people living there. Destroy their idols and tear down their altars. </span><span class="v4_33_53"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.53" class="v4_33_53">53</span>Then settle in the land—I have given it to you as your own.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v4_33_54"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.54" class="v4_33_54">54</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.54!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> I will show you<a href="#fn" id="link_Num.33.54!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> how to divide the land among the tribes, according to the number of clans in each one, so that the larger tribes will have more land than the smaller ones.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v4_33_55"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.55" class="v4_33_55">55</span>If you don't force out all the people there, they will be like splinters in your eyes and thorns in your back. They will always be trouble for you, </span><span class="v4_33_56"><span class="reftext" id="Num.33.56" class="v4_33_56">56</span>and I will treat you as severely as I planned on treating them.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.3,4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">first month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 9.3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.3,4 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">proudly: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “bravely.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Pi-Hahiroth: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Two ancient translations and the Samaritan Hebrew Text; the Standard Hebrew Text “a place near Hahiroth.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.8 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew <char style="tl">hayyam</char>, “the Sea,” understood as <char style="tl">yam suph</char>, “Sea of Reeds” (see also the note at Exodus 13.18).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.10 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Red Sea: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew <char style="tl">yam suph</char>, here referring to the Gulf of Suez, since the term is extended to include the northwestern arm of the Red Sea (see also the note at Exodus 13.18).</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the western edge of the Sinai Desert: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Hebrew “the Sin Desert.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.12-14 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">Rephidim … no water: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See Exodus 17.1-7.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.38 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">fifth month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Ab, the fifth month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-July to mid-August.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">33.54 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">I will show you: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 26.55,56.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. All rights reserved.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Bible text from the Contemporary English Version 2nd Edition (CEV®) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (<a href="http://www.americanbible.org">www.americanbible.org</a>). Learn more at <a href="http://www.cev.bible">www.cev.bible</a>. Discover .BIBLE resources for your ministry at <a href="http://www.get.bible/cev">www.get.bible/cev</a></span></p><br /><br /><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br /><br /><br /></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/32.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 32"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 32" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/34.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 34"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 34" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/numbers/33-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>