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Deuteronomy - ch 2 v 1 - 20
- Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the LORD spoke to me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
- And the LORD spoke to me, saying,
- Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
- And command thou 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: therefore take ye good heed to yourselves:
- Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot-breadth; because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
- Ye shall buy food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
- For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee: thou hast lacked nothing.
- And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
- And the LORD said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
- (The Emims dwelt in it in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakims;
- Who also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
- The Horims also dwelt formerly in Seir, but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the LORD gave to them.)
- Now rise, said I, and pass over the brook Zered: and we went over the brook Zered.
- And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we passed the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.
- For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
- So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
- That the LORD spoke to me, saying,
- Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
- And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
- (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt in it in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
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