<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">These are the journeys of the Israelites, who went out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the authority<n id="2" /> of Moses and Aaron.

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> spoke<n id="3" /> to Moses in the tent of meeting<n id="4" /> in the wilderness<n id="5" /> of Sinai<n id="6" /> on the first day of the second month of the second year after<n id="7" /> the Israelites<n id="8" /> departed from the land of Egypt.<n id="9" /> He said:<n id="10" />

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the first month of the second year after they had come out<n id="2" /> of the land of Egypt:p>

I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8221;p>

Is it a small thing<n id="1" /> that you have brought us up out of the land that flows with milk and honey,<n id="2" /> to kill us in the wilderness? Now do you want to make yourself a prince<n id="3" /> over us?

&#8220;Number the people<n id="1" /> from twenty years old and upward, just as the <sc>Lordsc> commanded Moses and the Israelites who went out from the land of Egypt.&#8221;p>

Aaron the priest ascended Mount Hor at the command<n id="1" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>, and he died there in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt on the first day of the fifth month.