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Numbers 21

21 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, the one dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel had come the way of the Atharim, and he fought against Israel, and he took captive from him a captive. 2 And Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and they said, “If giving, you give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.” 3 And Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and he gave the Canaanite, and he devoted them and their cities to destruction. And he called the name of the place Hormah.

4 And they set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Sea of Reeds to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was short on the way, 5 and the people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there is no water, and our soul loathes the worthless bread.” 6 And Yahweh sent among the people the serpents, the fiery ones, and they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. 7 And the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned, for we spoke against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, and let him remove from upon us the serpent.” And Moses prayed on behalf of the people. 8 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Make for yourself a fiery one and put it on a banner, and it will be that all the bitten ones will see it, and he will live.” 9 And Moses made a serpent of bronze, and he put it on the banner. And it was that if the serpent bit a man and he looked to the serpent of the bronze, then he lived.

10 And the sons of Israel set out, and they camped at Oboth. 11 And they set out from Oboth, and they camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that is upon the face of Moab, from the rising of the sun. 12 From there they set out, and they camped at Wadi Zered. 13 From there they set out, and they camped from across Arnon, which is in the wilderness that goes out from the border of the Amorite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. 14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of Yahweh,

“Waheb in Suphah

and the wadis of Arnon,

and the slope of the wadis

that stretches out to the seat of Ar

and leans to the border of Moab.”

16 And from there to Beer. It is the well where Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people, and I will give water to them.”

17 Then Israel sang this song:

“Go up, well!

Sing to it!

A well, princes excavated it,

the nobles of the people dug it,

with a scepter, with their staffs.”

And from the wilderness to Mattanah, 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, the head of the Pisgah, and it looks down upon the face of the wasteland.

21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorite, saying, 22 “Let me pass over in your land. We will not turn aside into a field or into a vineyard. We will not drink water of a well. On the way of the king we will go until when we pass over your border.” 23 And Sihon did not give Israel to pass over in his border, and Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel toward the wilderness. And he came to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel. 24 And Israel struck him to the mouth of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon as far as Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon. For the border of the sons of Ammon was strong. 25 And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its daughters. 26 For Heshbon, it was the city of Sihon, the king of the Amorite, and he had fought against the former king of Moab, and he had taken all his land from his hand as far as Arnon. 27 Therefore the ones speaking in parables say,

“Come to Heshbon!

Let it be built and be established,

the city of Sihon!

For a fire went out from Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It consumed Ar of Moab,

the lords of the high places of Arnon.

Woe to you, Moab!

You have perished, people of Chemosh!

He has given his sons as fugitives

and his daughters in the captivity,

to a king of Amorite, Sihon.

And we shot them.

Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon.

And we made desolate as far as Nophah,

which is as far as Medeba.”

31 And Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorite. 32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured its daughters and dispossessed the Amorite who was there.

33 And they turned and went up the way of the Bashan. And Og, the king of the Bashan, went out to meet them, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. 34 And Yahweh said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sihon, the king of the Amorite, who was dwelling in Heshbon.” 35 And they struck him and his sons and all his people until not a survivor remained for him, and they possessed his land.

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