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They fought against Midyan, as Adonai had ordered Moshe, and killed every male.

They killed the kings of Midyan along with the others who were slain — Evi, Rekem, Tzur, Hur and Reva, the five kings of Midyan. They also killed Bil‘am the son of B‘or with the sword.

The people of Isra'el took captive the women of Midyan and their little ones, and they took as booty all their cattle, flocks and other goods.

They set fire to all their cities in the areas where they lived and all their camps.

They took all the booty, all the people and animals they had captured,

(RY: iii; LY: vi) The descendants of Re'uven and the descendants of Gad had vast quantities of livestock. When they saw that the land of Ya‘zer and the land of Gil‘ad were good for livestock,

the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and the community leaders. They said,

If you regard us favorably," they went on, "let this land be given to your servants as their possession; and don't have us cross the Yarden."

For when they went up to the Eshkol Valley and saw the land, they disheartened the people of Isra'el, so that they wouldn't enter the land Adonai had given them.

‘None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the land I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya‘akov; because they haven't followed me unreservedly —

except Kalev the son of Y'funeh the K'nizi and Y'hoshua the son of Nun, because they have followed Adonai unreservedly.'

But they came up to him and said, "Here we will build enclosures for our livestock and cities for our little ones,

N'vo, Ba‘al-M‘on (these names have been changed) and Sivmah; they renamed the cities they built.

[In regular years read with Parashah 42, in leap years read separately] These are the stages in the journey of the people of Isra'el as they left the land of Egypt divided into groups under the leadership of Moshe and Aharon.

They moved on from Sukkot and camped at Etam, by the edge of the desert.

They moved on from Etam and turned back to Pi-Hachirot, in front of Ba‘al-Tz'fon, and camped before Migdol.

They moved on from P'nei-Hachirot, passed through the sea to the desert, continued three days' journey into the Etam Desert and camped at Marah.

They moved on from Marah and came to Eilim; in Eilim were twelve springs and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.

They moved on from Eilim and camped by the Sea of Suf.

(LY: ii) They moved on from the Sea of Suf and camped in the Seen Desert.