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Deuteronomy - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.
- And the Lord said to me,
- You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
- And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:
- Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.
- You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.
- For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
- So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.
- And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.
- (In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
- They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
- And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)
- Get up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went over the stream Zered.
- Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.
- For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.
- So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,
- The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;
- And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.
- (That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living there in earlier times, but they were named Zamzummim by the Ammonites;
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