Numbers Chapter 3 - The Complete List of Stations on Israel's Journey

There are forty two locations mentioned in the list, beginning with rameses from which they first set out and ending at the plains of moab. Jacob milgram and gordon wenham suggest that numbers chapter three fits a broader itinerary. With such itinerary we might initially think that the route taken by the israelites through the wilderness would be easy to determine. However this is definitely not the case. It is sometimes possible when they have been mentioning sites of continual settlement for thousands of years - even though some name clues may give us away. Sometimes there is continuity in their names but it's hard to tell if these are related or just coincidental. We should also recognize the