Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 33:38-56 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

38. And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt, W the fifth month, the first day of the month,

39. When he was a hundred and twenty-three years old.

40. And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard that the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan.

41. And they departed from mount Her, and camped in Salmona.

42. From whence they removed and came to Phunon.

43. And departing from Phunon, they camped in Oboth.

44. And from Oboth they came to Ijeabarim, which is in the borders of the Moabites.

45. And departing from Ijeabarim they pitched their tents in Dibongab.

46. From thence they went and camped in Helmondeblathaim.

47. And departing from Helmondeblathaim, they came to the mountains of Abarim over against Nabo.

48. And departing from the mountains of Abarim, they passed to the plains of Moab, by the Jordan, over against Jericho.

49. And there they camped from Bethsi moth even to Ablesatim in the plains of the Moabites,

50. Where the Lord said to Moses:

51. Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,

52. Destroy all the inhabitants of that land: beat down their pillars, and break in pieces their statues, and waste all their high places,

53. Cleansing the land, and dwelling in it. For I have given it you for a possession.

54. And you shall divide it among you by lot. To the more you shall give a larger part, and to the fewer a lesser. To every one as the lot shall fall, so shall the inheritance be given. The possession shall be divided by the tribes and the families.

55. But if you will not kill the inhabitants of the land: they that remain, shall be unto you as nails in your eyes, and spears in your sides, and they shall be your adversaries in the land of your habitation.

56. And whatsoever I had thought to do to them, I will do to you.