Hazeroth

Hazeroth is a wilderness encampment of Israel between Sinai and the wilderness of Paran. It appears as a single waypoint on the route out of Egypt, named four times in Numbers and recalled once in Deuteronomy as Moses begins his farewell address.

A Station on the Journey

Hazeroth enters the narrative immediately after Kibroth-hattaavah. "From Kibrothhattaavah the people journeyed to Hazeroth; and they remained at Hazeroth" (Nu 11:35). The pairing recurs in the itinerary catalog of Numbers 33: "And they journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah, and encamped in Hazeroth" (Nu 33:17). Hazeroth is thus consistently fixed as the stop directly after Kibroth-hattaavah on Israel's wilderness route.

Departure Toward Paran and Rithmah

The stay at Hazeroth ends with movement onward. The narrative account closes the episode by reporting, "And afterward the people journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in the wilderness of Paran" (Nu 12:16). The itinerary catalog gives the next encampment a more specific name: "And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah" (Nu 33:18). The two records are complementary — Numbers 12 names the broader region (Paran), and Numbers 33 names the specific next station (Rithmah) within that movement.

Recalled in Moses' Farewell

When Moses opens his address on the plains of Moab, Hazeroth is among the place-names that fix the geography of his speech: "These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in the Arabah across from Suph, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Di-zahab" (De 1:1). The site, encountered earlier in the wilderness sequence, is preserved in the locational frame of Deuteronomy.