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Deuteronomy - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- And we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Jehovah had said unto me; and we went round mount Seir many days.
- And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
- Ye have gone round this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
- And command the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you; and ye shall be very guarded:
- attack them not; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth; for I have given mount Seir as a possession unto Esau.
- Ye shall buy of them food for money, that ye may eat; and water shall ye also buy of them for money, that ye may drink;
- for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand. He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years hath Jehovah thy God been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
- And we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-geber, and we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
- And Jehovah said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither engage with them in battle; for I will not give thee of their land a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given Ar as a possession.
- (The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
- They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
- And in Seir dwelt the Horites in times past; and the children of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)
- Now rise up, and pass over the torrent Zered. And we passed over the torrent Zered.
- Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.
- Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
- And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed, having died off from among the people,
- that Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
- Thou art to pass this day over the border of Moab, which is Ar,
- and come near over against the children of Ammon; thou shalt not distress them nor attack them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession.
- (That also is reckoned a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in time past, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
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