In the Book
of Numbers the Israelites have to journey from Mt. Sinai to the Dead Sea, if
that doesn’t qualify as a sacred journey I don’t know what is. The cloud lifts
from above their camp and they take it as a sign to start. Start they did,
under the command of Moses once again. After Moses saved the Israelites from
the clutches of the pharaoh they practically worshipped him. They made him
their leader and decided to trek to the Dead Sea. The first thing Moses did was
split up the Israelites into groups: the camps of Judah, Reuben, Ephraim, and
Dan. They left in that exact order and after that God told Moses that he would
not accompany them; he said he would go back to his land and his people. Moses begged
for God to stay and help them, but God did not. The Israelites decided to
continue and eventually made it to the Dead Sea. Moses had to push through this
struggle by himself and find out what it meant to go on a sacred journey. I
would say this was a pilgrimage but it has only happened once and most likely will
not happen again. The journey of the Israelites has be told numerous times
through out history and will continue to be told as long as the Bible is
printed.
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