The Wilderness Years

But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built.

Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof.

And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it.

And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.

Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.

These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,

Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.

Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,

Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,)

And they camped in Soccoth.

And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness.

Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which looketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.

And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara.

And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they camped.

But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,

They camped in the desert of Sin.

And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca.

And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.

And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink.

And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.

But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust.

And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth.

And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.

And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.