So Judah and his brothers came back to Joseph’s house. He was still there, and they threw themselves to the ground before him.

Only in the land of Goshen, where the Israelites lived, was there no hail.

After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the Desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

The people kept their distance, but Moses drew near the thick darkness where God was.

But if he does not do it with premeditation, but it happens by accident, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

The Lord descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the Lord by name.

You are to place the ark of the testimony in it and shield the ark with the special curtain.

You are to put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it.

Then he put the large basin between the tent of meeting and the altar and put water in it for washing.

You must place them in the tent of meeting before the ark of the covenant where I meet with you.

Why have you brought up the Lord’s community into this wilderness? So that we and our cattle should die here?

Moses sent spies to reconnoiter Jaazer, and they captured its villages and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.

Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

They traveled from Alush and camped at Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

As for me, the Lord was also angry with me on your account. He said, “You also will not be able to go there.

But if you seek the Lord your God from there, you will find him, if, indeed, you seek him with all your heart and soul.

From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.

and serves in the name of the Lord his God like his fellow Levites who stand there before the Lord.

The elders of his own city must send for him and remove him from there to deliver him over to the blood avenger to die.