38. Aaron the priest went up onto Mount Hor at the word of the Lord and died there in the fortieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
39. Aaron was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.
40. King Arad the Canaanite, who lived in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.
41. They set out from Mount Hor and camped in Zalmonah.
42. They set out from Zalmonah and camped in Punon.
43. They set out from Punon and camped in Oboth.
44. They set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, on the border of Moab.
45. They set out from Iye Abarim and camped in Dibon Gad.
46. They set out from Dibon Gad and camped in Almon Diblathaim.
47. They set out from Almon Diblathaim and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48. They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the plains of Moab near Jordan of Jericho.
49. They camped by Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth to Abel Shittim in the plains of Moab.
50. The Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho, saying:
51. Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them: When you are crossing over Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52. then you will drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their carved images, and destroy all their molded images, and destroy all their high places,
53. and you will drive out the inhabitants of the land and dwell in it, because I have given you the land to inherit it.
54. You will possess the land by lot for an inheritance among your families, and to the larger you will give the larger inheritance, and to the smaller you will give the smaller inheritance. Every man’s inheritance will be in the place where his lot falls. By the tribes of your fathers you will inherit.
55. But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain will be like thorns in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will show hostility to you in the land in which you live.