38. Aaron the priest went up to Mount Hor at the command of Yahweh, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had gone out from the land of Egypt, in the fifth month on the first day of the month.
39. Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40. Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who was living in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the Israelites.
41. Then they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah.
42. They set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon.
43. They set out from Punon and camped at Oboth.
44. They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim, the boundary of Moab.
45. They set out from Iyim and camped at Dibon Gad.
46. They set out from Dibon Gad and camped at Almon-Diblatayim.
47. They set out from Almon-Diblatayim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48. They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho.
49. They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-Jeshimoth up to Abel Shittim, on the desert-plateau of Moab.
50. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses on the desert-plateau of Moab by the Jordan across Jericho, saying,
51. “Speak to the Israelites and say to them, ‘When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52. you will drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, and you will destroy all their idols and all the images of their molten idols, and you will demolish all their high places;
53. you will dispossess the land and live in it because I have given the land to you to possess it.
54. You will distribute the land by lot according to your clans; to the larger group you will give a larger inheritance, and to the smaller group you will give less inheritance. However the lot falls for him, there the lot will be. You will distribute it according to the tribes of your ancestors.
55. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from your presence, then it will happen that whomever you let remain of them will be like irritants in your eyes and like thorns in your sides; they will be your enemies in the land in which you live.