This itinerary reviews the past by listing noteworthy stages in the long Israelite journey from Egypt (cf. Exodus 12) to the plains of Moab. Some sites in this list are associated with events briefly mentioned here and detailed elsewhere in Exodus and Numbers, but other places appear only here. Many of the locations have been lost and remain unidentified. Numbers 33 lists only one stop at Kadesh (33:36–37). The Israelites arrived there earl…