0. Israel’s Journey to the Promised Land

No.	Case	Stage	Timeline
1	Israel’s oppression in Egypt	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Before Moses’ birth
2	Birth of Moses	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 0
3	Moses hidden in the Nile	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 0
4	Moses adopted into Pharaoh’s household	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 0–5
5	Moses kills the Egyptian	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 40
6	Moses flees to Midian	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 40
7	Moses lives in Midian	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 40–80
8	Moses marries Zipporah	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 40–80
9	Moses’ call at the burning bush	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
10	God reveals His name to Moses	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
11	Moses returns towards Egypt	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
12	Aaron meets Moses	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
13	Moses and Aaron speak to Israel	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
14	Moses and Aaron confront Pharaoh	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
15	Pharaoh increases Israel’s labour	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
16	Aaron’s staff becomes a serpent before Pharaoh	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
17	The Nile turned to blood	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
18	Plague of frogs	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
19	Plague of gnats	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
20	Plague of flies	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
21	Death of livestock	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
22	Plague of boils	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
23	Plague of hail	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
24	Plague of locusts	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
25	Plague of darkness	Stage 1: Bondage & Deliverance	Moses age 80
26	Institution of the Passover	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Day 0
27	Death of the firstborn	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Night of Day 0
28	The Exodus from Rameses	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Day 1
29	Joseph’s bones carried out of Egypt	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Day 1
30	Mixed multitude leaves with Israel	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Day 1
31	Pillar of cloud by day and fire by night	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Day 1
32	Pharaoh pursues Israel	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Days 2–5
33	Crossing of the Red Sea	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Days 3–7 approx.
34	Destruction of Pharaoh’s army	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same day
35	Song of Moses	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same day / next day
36	Song of Miriam	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same day / next day
37	Bitter water made sweet at Marah	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Week 1
38	Camp at Elim	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Week 2
39	Murmuring for food in the Wilderness of Sin	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
40	Manna from heaven begins	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
41	Quail provided in the wilderness	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
42	Sabbath pattern established through manna	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
43	Water from the rock at Rephidim	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
44	Naming of Massah and Meribah	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
45	Amalek attacks Israel	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
46	Moses’ raised hands during the battle	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same day
47	Victory over Amalek	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same day / next day
48	Jethro visits Moses	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
49	Jethro blesses God for Israel’s deliverance	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
50	Jethro advises Moses on governance	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
51	Appointment of leaders over thousands, hundreds, fifties and tens	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 2
52	Arrival at Mount Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
53	God calls Israel into covenant	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
54	Preparation for meeting God at Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
55	The Lord descends on Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
56	The Ten Commandments given	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
57	The people fear at Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
58	Covenant laws delivered	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
59	Covenant ratification with blood	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
60	Moses, Aaron and the elders eat before God	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
61	Moses ascends Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 3
62	Instructions for the Tabernacle	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
63	Instructions for the Ark	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
64	Instructions for the Table of the Bread	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
65	Instructions for the Golden Lampstand	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
66	Instructions for the Bronze Altar	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
67	Instructions for the priesthood	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
68	Instructions for worship and holiness	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 3–5
69	The golden calf rebellion	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 4–5
70	Moses breaks the tablets	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same period
71	Levites execute judgement on idolaters	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Same period
72	Moses intercedes for Israel	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 4–5
73	God promises His presence	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 4–5
74	Moses sees God’s glory in part	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 4–5
75	Covenant renewed	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 5
76	New tablets of stone given	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 5
77	Tabernacle materials collected	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 6–9
78	Construction of the Tabernacle	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 6–9
79	Priestly garments prepared	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Months 6–9
80	Tabernacle completed	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Month 9
81	The Tabernacle erected	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
82	The glory of the Lord fills the Tabernacle	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
83	Priests consecrated for service	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
84	Nadab and Abihu judged by fire	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
85	Laws of clean and unclean living	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
86	Day of Atonement instructions established	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1–2
87	Passover kept in the wilderness at Sinai	Stage 2: Covenant at Sinai	Year 2, Month 1
88	Cloud lifts from Sinai	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2
89	Israel departs from Sinai	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2
90	Silver trumpets used for assembly and movement	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2
91	Complaining at Taberah	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2
92	Fire of the Lord at Taberah	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same period
93	Craving for meat at Kibroth-hattaavah	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2–3
94	Quail sent in abundance	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same period
95	Plague at Kibroth-hattaavah	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same period
96	The Spirit rests on the seventy elders	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 2–3
97	Eldad and Medad prophesy in the camp	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same period
98	Miriam and Aaron speak against Moses	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 3
99	Miriam struck with leprosy	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same day
100	Miriam shut outside the camp seven days	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 3
101	Arrival in the wilderness of Paran	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 3
102	Twelve spies sent into Canaan	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 3
103	Spies explore the land for forty days	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 3–4
104	Spies return with fruit of the land	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
105	Ten spies give a fearful report	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
106	Joshua and Caleb give a faithful report	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
107	Israel refuses to enter the land	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
108	God declares judgement of forty years in the wilderness	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
109	Ten faithless spies die by plague	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
110	Joshua and Caleb alone are preserved to enter the land	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
111	Israel attempts a presumptuous invasion	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
112	Israel defeated by Amalekites and Canaanites	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2, Month 4
113	Sabbath-breaker judged	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2
114	Korah, Dathan and Abiram rebel	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Year 2 or later wilderness period
115	The earth swallows Korah’s company	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same episode
116	Fire consumes the 250 rebel leaders	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same episode
117	The congregation complains again	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Next day / same episode
118	Plague breaks out in the camp	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same episode
119	Aaron stands between the living and the dead	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Same episode
120	Aaron’s rod buds	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	After Korah episode
121	Duties of priests and Levites reaffirmed	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Wilderness period
122	Water of cleansing ordinance given	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Wilderness period
123	Long wilderness gap under judgement	Stage 3: Rebellion & Wandering	Years 2–39 broadly
124	Crossing the Zered Valley marks the passing of the old generation	Stage 4: The New Generation	End of wilderness period / Year 40 context
125	Death of Miriam at Kadesh	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
126	No water at Kadesh	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
127	Moses told to speak to the rock	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
128	Moses strikes the rock at Meribah	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
129	Water comes from the rock at Meribah	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
130	Moses and Aaron barred from entering the land	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 1
131	Request for passage through Edom	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 1–2
132	Edom refuses passage	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 1–2
133	Aaron transferred priestly garments to Eleazar	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 5
134	Death of Aaron on Mount Hor	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 5
135	Thirty days of mourning for Aaron	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 5–6
136	King Arad attacks Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 6
137	Victory over Arad	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 6
138	Israel turns south around Edom	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 6–7
139	People complain on the way	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 6–7
140	Fiery serpents sent among Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 6–7
141	Bronze serpent raised for healing	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 6–7
142	Camp at Oboth	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 7
143	Camp at Iye-abarim	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 7
144	Camp in the valley of Zered	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 7
145	Camp by the Arnon	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 7
146	Song of the well	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 7
147	Victory over Sihon king of the Amorites	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 7–8
148	Capture of Heshbon	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 7–8
149	Victory over Og king of Bashan	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
150	Israel camps in the plains of Moab opposite Jericho	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
151	Balak fears Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
152	Balaam summoned by Balak	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
153	Balaam’s donkey speaks	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
154	Balaam’s first oracle blesses Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
155	Balaam’s second oracle blesses Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
156	Balaam’s third oracle blesses Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
157	Balaam’s final oracle	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 8
158	Israel sins with Baal of Peor	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
159	Israel joins Moabite idolatry and immorality	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
160	Plague at Baal-Peor	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
161	Phinehas kills Zimri and Cozbi	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
162	Plague stopped through Phinehas	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
163	Midian marked for judgement	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 9
164	Second census of Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 9–10
165	Zelophehad’s daughters request inheritance	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 9–10
166	Joshua appointed as Moses’ successor	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
167	Offerings and feast regulations restated	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
168	Vows legislation given	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
169	War against Midian	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
170	Balaam killed	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
171	Reuben and Gad request land east of Jordan	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
172	Half-tribe of Manasseh joins east side	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
173	Summary of wilderness stages recorded	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 10
174	Boundaries of Canaan defined	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 10–11
175	Cities of refuge established in principle	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 10–11
176	Levitical cities assigned in principle	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 10–11
177	Moses begins farewell speeches	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
178	Review of the wilderness journey	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
179	Rehearsal of the law	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
180	The Shema proclaimed	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
181	Warnings against idolatry	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
182	Blessings and curses declared	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
183	Covenant renewed in Moab	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
184	Joshua publicly commissioned	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
185	Song of Moses taught to Israel	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 11
186	Moses blesses the tribes	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 11–12
187	Zelophehad’s daughters marriage resolution	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Months 11–12
188	Moses views the land from Mount Nebo	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 12
189	Death of Moses	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 12
190	Mourning for Moses	Stage 4: The New Generation	Year 40, Month 12 to Year 41, Month 1
191	Joshua assumes leadership	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
192	Joshua prepares the people to cross Jordan	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
193	Joshua sends spies to Jericho	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
194	Rahab hides the spies	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
195	Spies return to Joshua	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
196	Israel encamped in the plains of Moab before Jordan crossing	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1, about 3–4 days before crossing
197	Officers command preparation of provisions	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
198	Reuben, Gad and Manasseh pledge support	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
199	Priests carry the Ark toward the Jordan	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
200	Crossing of the Jordan River	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1, Day 10
201	Waters of the Jordan stand in a heap	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same day
202	Twelve memorial stones taken from Jordan	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same day
203	Israel camps at Gilgal	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same day
204	Memorial stones set up at Gilgal	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
205	Circumcision renewed at Gilgal	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
206	Reproach of Egypt rolled away	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
207	First Passover kept in the land	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1, Day 14
208	Manna ceases	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1, Day 15
209	Israel eats produce of Canaan	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
210	Gilgal serves as first camp inside the land	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1, about 5–7 days before Jericho march
211	Commander of the Lord’s army appears	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
212	Jericho shut up against Israel	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
213	March around Jericho six days	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
214	Sevenfold march on the seventh day	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
215	Fall of Jericho	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 1
216	Rahab and her household spared	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same episode
217	Jericho devoted to destruction	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same episode
218	Achan takes devoted things	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same episode
219	Israel defeated at Ai	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Months 1–2
220	Achan identified by lot	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Months 1–2
221	Achan judged	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Months 1–2
222	Israel attacks Ai again	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 2
223	Victory over Ai	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 2
224	King of Ai executed	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same episode
225	Covenant renewal at Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 2
226	Law written on stones	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same period
227	Blessings and curses proclaimed	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same period
228	Gibeonites deceive Israel	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 2
229	Treaty made with Gibeon	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Month 2
230	Deception discovered	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	About 3 days later
231	Gibeonites assigned to service	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same period
232	Southern kings attack Gibeon	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41, Months 2–3
233	Joshua marches all night to Gibeon	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same campaign
234	Battle of Gibeon	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same campaign
235	Hailstones strike Israel’s enemies	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same day
236	The sun stands still	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same day
237	Five Amorite kings defeated	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Same campaign
238	Southern campaign victories	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Year 41 onward
239	Northern kings gather against Israel	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 41–47 approx.
240	Battle at the waters of Merom	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 41–47 approx.
241	Northern campaign victories	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 41–47 approx.
242	Major kings of Canaan subdued	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 41–47 approx.
243	Allotment of land begins	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	About Year 47 approx.
244	Caleb receives Hebron	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	About Year 47 approx.
245	Tribal inheritance distributed by lot	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 47+ approx.
246	Cities of refuge formally assigned in the land	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 47+ approx.
247	Levitical cities formally assigned in the land	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	Years 47+ approx.
248	The land begins to have rest from war	Stage 5: Conquest of the Land	About Year 47 approx.

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