Numbers 33

"These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron. 2 Now Moses wrote down the starting points of their journeys at the command of the Lord. And these are their journeys according to their starting points:" vv.1-2

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It'd be interesting to map out exactly the Israelites route over the 40 years in the wilderness.  I imagine it being like the Lewis and Clark journey and seeing every place they stopped and set up camp for a while as they journeyed from coast to coast of the now United States.  Here is a map I found on google.

If I counted right the Israelites moved 42 times, that's almost once a year they moved.  Have you moved around as much in your life?  Can you even imagine moving that much for that long?  It's interesting how the NIV says their "stages of their journey."  Makes me think of stages of life that we all go through and it definitely feels like I've gone through more than 42 stages of life and I'm only 31 years old.  Moses recorded their journey of cities and round about route to get from Egypt to the Promised Land.  What would it look like if we recorded the stages of our journey from slavery to the Kingdom come?