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From Egypt the Israelites traveled through the wilderness to Sinai, the Mountain of God. There God revealed Himself in cloud and thunder, and offered them a Covenant: they would keep His torah (i.e., law, instruction), and in return He would be their God. The people accepted, and God gave them their laws, and also instructions for the Tabernacle, which would be His dwelling place among them. From Sinai they journeyed on to Kadesh-Barnea, arriving in the second year after leaving Egypt, and there they remained for 38 years. God gave them manna and water in the wilderness, but they complained against Him and longed to return to Egypt, and even Moses was disobedient, so that God declared that the entire generation that had left Egypt would pass away in the wilderness before a new generation would enter Canaan. The Israelites then journeyed to Moab, on the borders of Canaan, where Moses addressed them for the last time, recalling their journeys and giving them new laws. His death (the last reported event of the Torah), concluded the 40 years in the Wilderness, and the Israelites were free to begin the conquest of Canaan under their new leader, Joshua
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