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Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 33

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This is Numbers 33 from the Hebrew Bible (Torah), presented in both the original Hebrew script and full transliteration. The chapter belongs to the priestly tradition of the Pentateuch and takes the form of a travel itinerary — a stylized list of the forty-two camping stations of the Israelites on their journey from Rameses in Egypt to the plains of Moab on the Jordan River. The text opens with the note that Moses recorded these stages "by the command of the LORD," giving the list a deliberately archival character distinct from the narrative accounts in Exodus and Numbers. Several entries are bare place-names with no commentary, while a few attach brief notices of historical significance, most notably Aaron's death at Mount Hor at age 123 in the fortieth year of the wilderness period. The chapter closes with a divine speech commanding Israel, upon crossing the Jordan, to dispossess Canaan's inhabitants completely — destroying their cult objects and high places — and warning that any inhabitants left behind will become "thorns in your eyes and pricks in your sides." The passage is distinctive for its quasi-documentary tone and its unusually long roster of otherwise unattested place-names, which have made it a focal text in debates about the historicity and literary formation of the Exodus tradition.

Tanach: Numbers (Bemidbar): Numbers (Bemidbar) Chapter 33

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