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The Book of Deuteronomy 2

2 And we turned and journeyed into the wilderness on the way to the Sea of Reeds, as Yahweh had spoken to me. And we went around Mount Seir many days.

2 And Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 3 ‘Too long you have been going around this mountain. Turn yourselves northward. 4 And command the people, saying, “You will be crossing the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who live in Seir. And they will be afraid of you. And you shall be exceedingly on guard. 5 You shall not fight them, for I will not give to you from their land, even as little as a step of the sole of a foot, for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6 You will buy food from them with money, and you will eat. And also, you will purchase water from them with money, and you will drink.’

7 For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your walking through this great wilderness. These 40 years Yahweh your God has been with you. You have not lacked a thing.

8 And we passed by beyond our brothers, the sons of Esau who live in Seir, from the Arabah road, from Elath and from Ezion Geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

9 And Yahweh said to me, ‘You shall not trouble Moab, and you shall not fight against them in battle, for I will not give to you from its land a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot, as a possession.’

10 (The Emites lived there previously, a people great and numerous and tall as the Anakites. 11 They are also considered Raphaites, like the Anakites; but the Moabites call them Emites. 12 And the Horites lived in Seir previously, and the sons of Esau dispossessed them. And they destroyed them from their faces and lived in their place, like Israel did to the land of his possession that Yahweh gave to them.)

13 “‘Now, for yourselves, rise up and cross the brook Zered.’ And we crossed the brook Zered. 14 And the days which we came from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the brook Zered were 38 years, until all the generation of the men of war were finished from among the camp, as Yahweh had sworn to them. 15 And also, the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from among the camp until they came to an end.

16 And it happened, when all the men of war came to an end, dying from among the people, 17 then Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 18 ‘You are passing over today the border of Moab, Ar. 19 And you will approach on the other side of the sons of Ammon. You shall not trouble them and you shall not fight them, for I will not give to you from the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.’”

20 (Also, it is regarded as a land of the Raphaites. The Raphaites lived there previously—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummites— 21 a people great and numerous and tall as the Anakites. But Yahweh destroyed them before their faces, and they dispossessed them and lived in their place, 22 just as he did for the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before their faces, and they dispossessed them and have lived in their place until this day. 23 And the Avvites who lived in villages as far as Gaza—the Caphtorites, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

24 “‘Rise up, journey, and pass through the Valley of Arnon. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to possess it, and fight against him in battle. 25 This day I will begin to put the fear of you and the terror of you on the faces of the peoples under all the heavens, that they might hear a report of you and might quake and tremble from your face.’

26 And I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying, 27 ‘I will pass through your land on the road. On the road I will go. I will not turn right or left. 28 You will sell me food for money, and I will eat. And give to me water for money, and I will drink. Only let me pass through on my feet 29 as the sons of Esau who live in Seir, and the Moabites who live in Ar, did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ 30 But Sihon, king of Heshbon, was not willing to let us pass by him, for Yahweh your God had hardened his spirit and strengthened his heart in order to give him into your hand, as this day.

31 And Yahweh said to me, ‘Look, I have begun giving before your face Sihon and his land. Begin, possess, to possess his land.’

32 And Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to the battle at Jahaz. 33 And Yahweh our God gave him before our faces, and we struck him down and his son and all his people. 34 And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city—men and the women and the children; we left no survivor. 35 We only plundered the cattle for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities that we had captured. 36 From Aroer, which is on the lip of the Valley of Arnon, and from the city that is in the valley, and as far as Gilead, there was not a city that was too high for us. Yahweh our God gave the whole before our faces. 37 It was only to the land of the sons of Ammon that you did not approach, all the hand of the Jabbok River, and the cities of the hill country—and all Yahweh our God had commanded.

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