These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names by their settlements and their camps—twelve princes according to their clans.

He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

Laban overtook Jacob, and when Jacob pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead, Laban and his relatives set up camp there too.

When Jacob saw them, he exclaimed, “This is the camp of God!” So he named that place Mahanaim.

Jacob was very afraid and upset. So he divided the people who were with him into two camps, as well as the flocks, herds, and camels.

“If Esau attacks one camp,” he thought, “then the other camp will be able to escape.”

I am not worthy of all the faithful love you have shown your servant. With only my walking stick I crossed the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

After he left Paddan Aram, Jacob came safely to the city of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and he camped near the city.

They journeyed from Sukkoth and camped in Etham, on the edge of the desert.

“Tell the Israelites that they must turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea; you are to camp by the sea before Baal Zephon opposite it.

The Egyptians chased after them, and all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh and his horsemen and his army overtook them camping by the sea, beside Pi Hahiroth, before Baal Zephon.

The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them.

It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night.

Then they came to Elim, where there were twelve wells of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

In the evening the quail came up and covered the camp, and in the morning a layer of dew was all around the camp.

Water at Massah and Meribah

The whole community of the Israelites traveled on their journey from the wilderness of Sin according to the Lord’s instruction, and they pitched camp in Rephidim. Now there was no water for the people to drink.

Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.

After they journeyed from Rephidim, they came to the desert of Sinai, and they camped in the desert; Israel camped there in front of the mountain.

On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.

Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet God, and they took their place at the foot of the mountain.

But the meat of the bull, its skin, and its dung you are to burn up outside the camp. It is the purification offering.

When Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “It is the sound of war in the camp!”

When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain.

So Moses stood at the entrance of the camp and said, “Whoever is for the Lord, come to me.” All the Levites gathered around him,