1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the
way to the Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me; and we compassed Mount Seir many
days. 2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 3 You have compassed this
mountain long enough: turn you northward. 4 Command you the people,
saying, You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children
of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good
heed to yourselves therefore; 5 don’t contend with them; for I will not
give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread
on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession. 6 You
shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you
shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink. 7 For
Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known
your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God
has been with you; you have lacked nothing. 8 So we passed by from our
brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah
from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the
wilderness of Moab. 9 Yahweh said to me, Don’t bother Moab, neither
contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a
possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
10 (The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as
the Anakim: 11 these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the
Moabites call them Emim. 12 The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the
children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them,
and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which
Yahweh gave to them.) 13 Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. We
went over the brook Zered. 14 The days in which we came from
Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight
years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the
midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them. 15 Moreover the hand of Yahweh
was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were
consumed. 16 So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and
dead from among the people, 17 that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 18 You
are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: 19 and when you come
near over against the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with
them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a
possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
20 (That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein
before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim, 21 a people great, and
many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and
they succeeded them, and lived in their place; 22 as he did for the
children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from
before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this
day: 23 and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the
Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their
place.) 24 Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of
the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of
Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on
the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you,
and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you. 26 I sent messengers
out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of
peace, saying, 27 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the
highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left. 28 You
shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money,
that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet, 29 as the children
of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until
I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your
God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver
him into your hand, as at this day. 31 Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have
begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you
may inherit his land. 32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his
people, to battle at Jahaz. 33 Yahweh our God delivered him up before us;
and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people. 34 We took all his
cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the
women and the little ones; we left none remaining: 35 only the cattle we
took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had
taken. 36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
from the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a
city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us: 37 only
to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near; all the side of
the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever Yahweh our
God forbade us.
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