Numbers 33 - 34

A summary is given of the nation's travel from Egypt to the very border of the Promised Land.  Now that they had arrived at the ending point of their journey through the desert, God gave careful instructions for the next step:  drive out all the inhabitants of the land and take possession of it for yourself.  Failure to do so would produce future problems.  The nation was given specific boundaries to restrict their movements; and a process was put into place to divide the land among the 9 1/2 tribes who would occupy it (2 1/2 took their land on the east side of the river, remember?).