Bible in a Year.

On the seventy-eighth day, Numbers 33 recaps all the stages of Israel's pilgrimage from Egypt to the plains of Moab. Deuteronomy 32 contains the song of Moses, extolling God's faithfulness and denouncing the people's unfaithfulness. Psalm 118 closes the cycle with confident praise: "The Lord is my strength and my song." It is a day of remembrance, worship, and recognition of the divine grace that sustains the journey.

1. These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,

2. Which Moses wrote down according to the places of their encamping, which they changed by the commandment of the Lord.

3. Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the eight of all the Egyptians,

4. Who were burying their firstborn, whom the Lord had slain (upon their gods also he had executed vengeance,)

5. And they camped in Soccoth.

6. And from Soccoth they came into Etham, which is in the uttermost borders of the wilderness.

7. Departing from thence they came over against Phihahiroth, which looketh towards Beelsephon, and they camped before Magdalum.

8. And departing from Phihahiroth, they passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and having marched three days through the desert of Etham, they camped in Mara.

9. And departing from Mara, they came into Elim, where there were twelve fountains of waters, and seventy palm trees: and there they camped.

10. But departing from thence also, they pitched their tents by the Red Sea. And departing from the Red Sea,

11. They camped in the desert of Sin.

12. And they removed from thence, and came to Daphca.

13. And departing from Daphca, they camped in Alus.

14. And departing from Alus, they pitched their tents in Raphidim, where the people wanted water to drink.

15. And departing from Raphidim, they camped in the desert of Sinai.

16. But departing also from the desert of Sinai, they came to the graves of lust.

17. And departing from the graves of lust, they camped in Haseroth.

18. And from Haseroth they came to Rethma.

19. And departing from Rethma, they camped in Remmomphares.

20. And they departed from thence and came to Lebna.

21. Removing from Lebna they camped in Ressa.

22. And departing from Ressa, they came to Ceelatha.

23. And they removed from thence and camped in the mountain Sepher.

24. Departing from the mountain Sepher, they came to Arada.

25. From thence they went and camped in Maceloth.

26. And departing from Maceloth, they came to Thahath.

27. Removing from Thahath they camped in Thare.

28. And they departed from thence, and pitched their tents in Methca.

29. And removing from Methca, they camped in Hesmona.

30. And departing from Hesmona, they came to Moseroth.

31. And removing from Moseroth, they camped in Benejaacan.

32. And departing from Benejaacan, they came to mount Gadgad.

33. From thence they went and camped in Jetebatha.

34. And from Jetebatha they came to Hebrona.

35. And departing from Hebrona, they camped in Asiongaber.

36. They removed from thence and came into the desert of Sin, which is Cades.

37. And departing from Cades, they camped in mount Her, in the uttermost borders of the land of Edom.

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.

1. Hear, O ye heavens, the things I speak, let the earth give ear to the words of my mouth.

2. Let my doctrine gather as the rain, let my speech distil as the dew, as a shower upon the herb, and as drops upon the grass.

3. Because I will invoke the name of the Lord: give ye magnificence to our God.

4. The works of God are perfect, and all his ways are judgments: God is faithful and without any iniquity, he is just and right.

5. They have sinned against him, and are nose of his children in their filth: they are a wicked and perverse generation.

6. Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee?

7. Remember the days of old, think upon every generation: ask thy father, and he will declare to thee: thy elders and they will tell thee.

8. When the Most High divided the nations: when he separated the sons of Adam, he appointed the bounds of people according to the number of the children of Israel.

9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.

10. He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11. As the eagle enticing her young to fly, and hovering over them, he spread his wings, and hath taken him and carried him on his shoulders.

12. The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him.

13. He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

14. Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.

15. The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour.

16. They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations.

17. They sacrificed to devils and not to God: to gods whom they knew not: that were newly come up, whom their fathers worshipped not.

18. Thou hast forsaken the God that beget thee, and hast forgotten the Lord that created thee.

19. The Lord saw, and was moved to wrath: because his own sons and daughters provoked him.

20. And he said: I will hide my face from them, and will consider what their last end shall be: for it is a perverse generation, and unfaithful children.

21. They have provoked me with that which was no god, and have angered me with their vanities: and I will provoke them with that which is no people, and will vex them with a foolish nation.

22. A fire is kindled in my wrath, and shall burn even to the lowest hell: and shall devour the earth with her increase, and shall burn the foundations of the mountains.

23. I will heap evils upon them, and will spend my arrows among them.

24. They shall be consumed with famine, and birds shall devour them with a most bitter bite: I will send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the fury of creatures that trail upon the ground, and of serpents.

25. Without, the sword shall lay them waste, and terror within, both the young man and the virgin, the sucking child with the man in years.

26. I said: Where are they? I will make the memory of them to cease from among men.

27. But for the wrath of the enemies I have deferred it: lest perhaps their enemies might be proud, and should say: Our mighty hand, and not the Lord, hath done all these things.

28. They are a nation without counsel, and without wisdom.

29. O that they would be wise and would understand, and would provide for their last end.

30. How should one pursue after a thousand, and two chase ten thousand? Was it not, because their God had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

31. For our God is not as their gods: our enemies themselves are judges.

32. Their vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha: their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter.

33. Their wine is the gall of dragons, and the venom of asps, which is incurable.

34. Are not these things stored up with me, and sealed up in my treasures?

35. Revenge is mine, and I will repay them in due time, that their foot may slide: the day of destruction is at hand, and the time makes haste to come.

36. The Lord will judge his people, and will have mercy on his servants : he shall see that their hand is weakened, and that they who were shut up have also failed, and they that remained are consumed.

37. And he shall say: Where are their gods, in whom they trusted?

38. Of whose victims they ate the fat, and drank the wine of their drink offerings: let them arise and help you, and protect you in your distress.

39. See ye that I alone am, and there is no other God besides me: I will kill and I will make to live: I will strike, and I will heal, and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.

40. I will lift up my hand to heaven, and I will say: I live for ever.

41. If I shall whet my sword as the lightning, and my hand take hold on judgment: I will render vengeance to my enemies, and repay them that hate me.

42. I will make my arrows drunk with blood, and my sword shall devour flesh, of the blood of the slain and of the captivity, of the bare head of the enemies.

43. Praise his people, ye nations, for he will revenge the blood of his servants: and will render vengeance to their enemies, and he will be merciful to the land of his people.

44. So Moses came and spoke all the words of this canticle in the ears of the people, and Josue the son of Nun.

45. And he ended all these words, speaking to all Israel.

46. And he said to them : Set your hearts on all the words, which I testify to you this day: which you shall command your children to observe and to do, and to fulfil all that is written in this law:

47. For they are not commanded you in vain, but that every one should live in them, and that doing them you may continue a long time in the land whither you are going over the Jordan to possess it.

48. And the Lord spoke to Moses the same day, saying:

49. Go up into this mountain Abarim, (that is to say, of passages,) unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab over against Jericho: and see the land of Chanaan, which I will deliver to the children of Israel to possess, and die thou in the mountain.

50. When thou art gone up into it thou shalt be gathered to thy people, as Aaron thy brother died in mount Her, and was gathered to his people:

51. Because you trespassed against me in the midst of the children of Israel, at the waters of contradiction in Cades of the desert of Sin: and you did not sanctify me among the children of Israel.

52. Thou shalt see the land before thee, which I will give to the children of Israel, but thou shalt not enter into it.

1. Give praise to Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.

2. Let Israel now say that he is good: that his mercy endureth for ever.

3. Let the house of Aaron now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

4. Let them that fear the Lord now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.

5. In my trouble I called upon the Lord: and the Lord heard me, and enlarged me.

6. The Lord is my helper, I will not fear what man can do unto me.

7. The Lord is my helper: and I will look over my enemies.

8. It is good to confide in the Lord, rather than to have confidence in man.

9. It is good to trust in the Lord, rather than to trust in princes.

10. All nations compassed me about; and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.

11. Surrounding me they compassed me about: and in the name of the Lord I have been revenged on them.

12. They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them

13. Being pushed I was overturned that I might fall: but the Lord supported me.

14. The Lord is my strength and my praise: and he is become my salvation.

15. The voice of rejoicing and of salvation is in the tabernacles of the just.

16. The right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength: the right hand of the Lord hath exulted me: the right hand of the Lord hath wrought strength.

17. I shall not die, but live: and shall declare the works of the Lord.

18. The Lord chastising hath chastised me: but he hath not delivered me over to death.

19. Open ye to me the gates of justice: I will go into them, and give praise to the Lord.

20. This is the gate of the Lord, the just shall enter into it.

21. I will give glory to thee because thou hast heard me: and art become my salvation.

22. The stone which the builders rejected; the same is become the head of the corner.

23. This is the Lord's doing: and it is wonderful in our eyes.

24. This is the day which the Lord hath made: let us be glad and rejoice therein.

25. O Lord, save me: O Lord, give good success.

26. Blessed be he that cometh in the name Lord. We have blessed you out of the house of the Lord.

27. The Lord is God, and he hath shone upon us. Appoint a solemn day, with shady boughs, even to the horn of the alter.

28. Thou art my God, and I will praise thee: thou art my God, and I will exalt thee. I will praise thee, because thou hast heard me, and art become my salvation.

29. O praise ye the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.