The Station list of the 42 stations of the Exodus gets a lot of attention in the first five books of the Bible. Essentially the Pentateuch stands as Israel's deed to the property giving first the precedents or common law that can be cited as case law, then its right to the inheritance as well as possible counterclaims and their resolution in the Story of Abraham, and secondly as it walks the metes and bounds of Edom in the Book of Exodus it gives a sense of what it is about that property the people care about. In Numbers, Leviticus and Deuteronomy the list is repeated as if in the form of a contract bound with its various blessings and curses, covenants and conditions, offers, acceptance, and list of the interested parties and beneficiaries, as if the deed were being recorded in some etern