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Then we
turned, and took our journey into the wilderness
by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto
me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
02 And the Lord spake unto me, saying,
03 Ye have compassed this mountain long
enough: turn you northward.
04 And command thou the people, saying, Ye
are to pass through the coast of your brethren
the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and
they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed
unto yourselves therefore:
05 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 unto
Esau for a possession.
06 Ye shall buy meat of them for money,
that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of
them for money, that ye may drink.
07 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.
08 And when we passed by from our brethren
the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir,
through the way of the plain from Elath, and from
Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of
the wilderness of Moab.
09 And the Lord said unto 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 unto
the children of Lot for a possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a
people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the
Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir
beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded
them, when they had destroyed them from before
them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did
unto the land of his possession, which the Lord
gave unto them.
13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over
the brook Zered. And we went over the brook
Zered.
14 And the space in which we came from
Kadeshbarnea, until we were come over the brook
Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the
generation of the men of war were wasted out from
among the host, as the Lord sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was
against them, to destroy them from among the
host, until they were consumed.
16 So it came to pass, when all the men of
war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17 That the Lord spake unto me, saying,
18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the
coast of Moab, this day:
19 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 unto the children of Lot
for a possession.
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20 (That also was accounted
a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old
time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21 A people great, and many, and tall, as
the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their
stead:
22 As he did to the children of Esau, which
dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from
before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt
in their stead even unto this day:
23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim,
even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth
out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in
their stead.)
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass
over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into
thine 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 thee and the fear of thee upon the nations
that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear
report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in
anguish because of thee.
26 And I sent messengers out of the
wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon
with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go
along by the high way, I will neither turn unto
the right hand nor to the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that
I may eat; and give me water for money, that I
may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29 (As the children of Esau which dwell in
Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did
unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the
land which the Lord our God giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let
us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his
spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he
might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth
this day.
31 And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I
have begun to give Sihon and his land before
thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit
his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and
all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him
before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and
all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that time,
and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and
the little ones, of every city, we left none to
remain:
35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto
ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we
took.
36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the
river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the
river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city
too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all
unto us:
37 Only unto the land of the children of
Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the
river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the
mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God
forbad us.
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