Study Desk

They took all the plunder and all the spoils, both people and animals.

They brought the captives and the spoils and the plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the Israelite community, to the camp on the plains of Moab, along the Jordan River across from Jericho.

All the gold of the offering they offered up to the Lord from the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds weighed 16,750 shekels.

Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,

the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,

When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.

‘Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old and upward who came from Egypt will see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,

except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the Lord wholeheartedly.'

Then they came very close to him and said, "We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,

Nebo, Baal Meon (with a change of name), and Sibmah. They renamed the cities they built.

They traveled from Succoth, and camped in Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness.

They traveled from Etham, and turned again to Pi-hahiroth, which is before Baal-Zephon; and they camped before Migdal.

They traveled from Pi-hahiroth, and passed through the middle of the sea into the wilderness, and went three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham, and camped in Marah.

They traveled from Marah and came to Elim; in Elim there are twelve fountains of water and seventy palm trees, so they camped there.

They traveled from Elim, and camped by the Red Sea.

They traveled from the Red Sea and camped in the wilderness of Zin.

They traveled from the wilderness of Zin and camped in Dophkah.

And they traveled from Dophkah, and camped in Alush.

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

They traveled from Rephidim and camped in the wilderness of Sinai.