The Wilderness Itinerary: Before moving further in final preparations for entering the land, the narrative stops to review where Israel has been on the journey. The preceding chapters have looked to the past for guidance. Chapters 28–29 considered again the offerings instituted at Sinai. Chapter 31 responded to the incident in Numbers 25, and chapter 32 recalled the account found in Numbers 13–14. Here, then, chapter 33 expands the memory of events at Kadesh-Barnea in reviewing the journey from Egypt to the plains of Moab. The locations of many of the places in the list have been lost in the sands of history, and many of the names do not occur elsewhere in the Bible. Still, the Priestly tradents have preserved this memory of the journey as further preparation for living as God’s people in …