2"We turned and set out for the desert on the road to the Reed Sea just as the Lord had directed me. We traveled around Mount Seir for many days.H6437H5265H4057H1870H5488H3220H3068H1696H5437H2022H8165H7227H3117 2"Then the Lord said to me,H3068H559H559 3'You went around this mountain long enough. Turn northwardH5437H2022H7227H6437H6828 4and command this people, "You are about to pass through the territory of your relatives, the descendants of Esau who live around Seir. They will be afraid of you so be very careful.H6680H5971H559H5674H1366H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H3372H3966H8104 5Don't fight them, because I won't give you any part of their land, not even the size of a footprint. I have given Mount Seir to Esau as their property.H1624H5414H776H7272H4096H3709H5414H2022H8165H6215H3425 6You may buy food to eat and water to drink from them, paying with cash."'H7666H400H3701H398H3739H4325H3701H8354 7Indeed, the Lord your God blessed all the works of your hands. He knows about your travels through this vast desert. The Lord your God was with you this past 40 years, so that you didn't lack anything.H3068H430H1288H4639H3027H3045H3212H1419H4057H705H8141H3068H430H2637H1697 8So we bypassed our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir. We turned through the Arabah desert from Elath, and from Ezion-geber we traveled the desert road to Moab."6H5674H251H1121H6215H3427H8165H1870H6160H359H6100H6437H5674H1870H4057H4124 9"Then the Lord said to me, 'Don't harass Moab or provoke them to war, because I won't give you any part of their land. I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their property.H3068H559H6696H4124H1624H4421H5414H776H3425H5414H6144H1121H3876H3425 10(The Emites, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, lived there before.H368H3427H6440H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062 11Like the Anakim, they were thought of as Rephaim, but the Moabites called them Emites.H1992H2803H7497H6062H4125H7121H368 12The Horites used to live in Seir before the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, exterminated them, and settled there instead, just as Israel will do in the land of its possession, which the Lord gave them.)H2752H3427H8165H6440H1121H6215H3423H8045H6440H3427H3478H6213H776H3425H3068H5414 13Now get going and cross the Wadi Zered.' And so we crossed the Wadi Zered.11H6965H5674H5158H2218H5674H5158H2218 14"Now from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Wadi Zered was 38 years. All of that generation, the soldiers in the camp, were destroyed just as the Lord swore they would be.H3117H1980H6947H5674H5158H2218H7970H8083H8141H1755H582H4421H8552H7130H4264H3068H7650 15Indeed, the hand of the Lord was against them to root them out from the camp until they were utterly destroyed."H3027H3068H2000H7130H4264H8552 16"And so all the soldiers among the people died.H582H4421H8552H4191H7130H5971 17Then the Lord spoke to me,H3068H1696H559 18'Today, you are about to cross the border of Moab at Ar.H5674H6144H1366H4124H3117 19When you come to the Ammonites, don't harass or provoke them to war, for I won't give any part of Ammonite land to you, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their property.'H7126H4136H1121H5983H6696H1624H5414H776H1121H5983H3425H5414H1121H3876H3425 20"'(Indeed, it was considered Rephaim territory, since the Rephaim used to lived there. The Ammonites called them Zamzummites,H2803H776H7497H7497H3427H6440H5984H7121H2157 21a great people, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed the Rephaim, so that the Ammonites dispossessed them and settled there instead.H5971H1419H7227H7311H6062H3068H8045H6440H3423H3427 22This is what he did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before them. So they dispossessed them and settled there in their place, where they live to this day.H6213H1121H6215H3427H8165H8045H2752H6440H3423H3427H3117 23It was the same for the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza. The Caphtorites, who came from Crete, destroyed them and settled there in their place.)H5761H3427H2699H5804H3732H3318H3731H8045H3427 24"'Get ready and set out for the Wadi Arnon. Look! I've given into your control Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, along with his land. Prepare to take possession by provoking him to war.H6965H5265H5674H5158H769H7200H5414H3027H5511H567H4428H2809H776H2490H3423H1624H4421 25Starting today I will begin to instill fear and terror of you on the part of every nation under heaven who hears reports about you. They'll tremble in anguish before you.'"H3117H2490H5414H6343H3374H6440H5971H8064H8085H8088H7264H2342H6440 26"I sent messengers from the desert of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon, with this message of peace:H7971H4397H4057H6932H5511H4428H2809H1697H7965H559 27'Let me pass through your territory. I'll stay on the main road. I won't turn to the right or left.H5674H776H3212H1870H1870H5493H3225H8040 28Sell me food for cash so I can eat and give me water for cash, so I can drink. Just let me pass through on footH7666H400H3701H398H5414H4325H3701H8354H5674H7272 29as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir did for me, as did the Moabites who live in Ar. I'll pass through, until I will have crossed the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is about to give us.'H1121H6215H3427H8165H4125H3427H6144H6213H5674H3383H776H3068H430H5414 30But Sihon king of Heshbon did not allow us to pass through, because the Lord your God had hardened his spirit and made him arrogant, in order to deliver him into your control today.H5511H4428H2809H14H5674H3068H430H7185H7307H3824H553H5414H3027H3117 31"Then the Lord said to me, 'See, I've begun to deliver Sihon and his territory over to you. Prepare to take possession of his land.'H3068H559H7200H2490H5414H5511H776H6440H2490H3423H3423H776 32"Sihon came out to meet us, including his entire his army, at the battle of Jahaz.H5511H3318H7125H5971H4421H3096 33The Lord our God delivered him to us, so we attacked him, his son, and his whole army.H3068H430H5414H6440H5221H1121H5971 34We captured all his towns at that time. We utterly destroyed every town - the men, the women, and the children, leaving no survivors.H3920H5892H6256H2763H4962H802H2945H5892H7604H8300 35We only appropriated the livestock for our use, along with plunder from the cities that we captured.H929H962H7998H5892H3920 36From Aroer on the edge of Arnon Valley and from the town all the way to Gilead, there was no city that was too strong for us - the Lord our God delivered them all to us.H6177H8193H5158H769H5892H5158H1568H7151H7682H3068H430H5414H6440 37You did not encroach onto Ammonite land, the banks of the Wadi Jabbok, the towns in the hill country, and all the other places that were forbidden by the Lord our God."H776H1121H5983H7126H3027H5158H2999H5892H2022H3068H430H6680
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