In Numbers 34, the Lord instructs Moses regarding the boundaries of the promised land (Canaan). God gives the specific land marks for the boundaries on the North, South, East, and West, of the special land that will be the possession of the Israelites. Next, the Lord directs Moses to give responsibility of dividing the land to Eleazar and Joshua. Also, the leader of each tribe is enlisted to help oversee the dividing of the land among the Israelites.

Numbers 33 ... the LORD said to Moses, "Speak to the Israelites and say to them: 'When you cross the Jordan into Canaan, drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you. Destroy all their carved images and their cast idols, and demolish all their high places. Take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given you the land to possess. Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes. " 'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land, those you allow to remain will become barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides. They will give you trouble in the land where you will live. 56 And then I will do to you what I plan to do to them.' "

Numbers 28-32

Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, "Shall your countrymen go to war while you sit here? Why do you discourage the Israelites from going over into the land the LORD has given them? This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land. After they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the LORD had given them. The LORD's anger was aroused that day and he swore this oath: 'Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob- not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.' The LORD's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.
"And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the LORD even more angry with Israel. If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the desert, and you will be the cause of their destruction."

In Numbers 27, Moses is directed by the Lord to go up to the Abarim mountain range and view the land that will be given to the Israelites after his death. Moses then asked God to appoint someone to take over the responsibility in shepherding the Israelites. The Lord told Moses to take Joshua as his successor and commission him before the whole assembly of Israelites so that they will respect his authority and obey him.

Numbers 26 records the second census instructed by the Lord, "Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families--all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel." The total number of the men of Israel was 601,730.
"Not one of them was among those counted by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Desert of Sinai. For the Lord had told those Israelites they would surely die in the desert, and not one of them was left except Caleb and Joshua."

In Numbers 25, the Lord sent a plague upon the Israelites, killing 24,000 as a result of their immorality and participating in Moabite sacrifices to the Baal of Peor. A grandson of Aaron, Phinehas, turned the Lord's anger away from the Israelites by his zeal for God's honor. God said to Moses, "Therefore tell him (Phinehas) I am making my covenant of peace with him. He and his descendants will have a covenant of a lasting priesthood, because he was zealous for the honor of his God and made atonement for the Israelites."

Numbers 24
The Holy Spirit of God came upon Balaam and he received a clear message from the Lord, as he again blessed the Israelites. "...water will flow from their buckets, their offspring will have all they need, their king will be great .. their kingdom will be exalted..God brought them out of Egypt and for them He is strong. " Balek again became enraged that Balaam had blessed the Israelites, but Balaam says again, "I am powerless to do anything against the will of the Lord.. I could say only what the Lord says".