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Illustration for Chapter 33:<\/p>\n

The last reading in the Book of Numbers, summarizes the book by recording the Israelites\u2019 journeys in the wilderness. The chapter begins by noting: \u201cThese were the marches (<\/span>mase\u2019ei<\/span><\/i>) of the Israelites who started out from the land of Egypt troop by troop in the charge of Moses and Aaron\u201d (Num. 33:1). The forty-two names listed are the places where the Israelites encamped for longer or shorter periods during the many years that they wandered in the desert.<\/span><\/p>\n

Why is it so significant that Moses, now near the end of his long years of arduous leadership, felt compelled to detail the Israelites\u2019 journeys as they traveled from place to place, emphasizing that these marches were enjoined by God?<\/span><\/p>\n

This painting visualizes the travels recorded in the text in a colorful template made up of eleven registers, inviting the viewer to follow the Israelites\u2019 journey, station by station, reading from the top right to the bottom left. Each register shows a light-colored strip, alluding to the desert where the Israelites traveled and encamped. Desert hills sit atop the sand and above the hills we see blue skies. Images of the Egyptian pyramids at the far right of the top register mark the Israelites\u2019 point of departure. <\/span><\/p>\n

The names of the various places where they rested appear on the strips of desert sand: The Hebrew names inscribed in the picture are: Rameses, Succoth, Eitam (marked as the edge of the wilderness), Hiroth (where the blue sea is shown), Marah, Elim, Dophkah, Alush, Rephidim, the wilderness of Sinai, Kibroth, Hazeroth, Rithmah, Rimon-Perez, Libnah, Rissah, Kehelah, Mount Shepher, Haradah, Makheloth, Tahath, Terah, Mithkah, the <\/span>mountains of Abarim, the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and finally to Beth-Jeshimoth, and Abel-Shittim. <\/span><\/p>\n

Both the biblical text of <\/span>Mase\u2019ei<\/span><\/i> and the artist\u2019s visualization clearly accent the importance of the people\u2019s memory of its past and its history. There is no doubt that recalling the long years that they survived in the wilderness and its many tribulations enhanced the recognition of what they had endured along with the knowledge of the protection they had enjoyed at God\u2019s hands. Moses was convinced that the recollection of their years in the desert had to be kept alive so that the Israelites would always remember all that God did for them and would follow Him forever, as voiced so eloquently in the later verse that entered Jewish liturgy: \u201cThus said the LORD: I accounted your favor, the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride \u2013 how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown\u201d (Jer. 2:2). The Israelites were never to forget that their journey was a manifestation of the Lord\u2019s direct involvement with His chosen people. <\/span><\/p>\n

Artwork by: Avner Moriah, by courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Text by: Dr. Shulamit Laderman, who holds a\u00a0<\/span>PhD in Art History and has published extensively on Jewish and Christian influences on biblical interpretive illustration.<\/p>\n

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