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The Book of Deuteronomy 2

2 Then we turned around and went through the desert toward the Red Sea as Yahweh told us to do. We wandered in Edom for many years.

2 Then Yahweh said to me, 3 ‘You have been wandering around this hilly area for a long enough time. Now turn and travel toward the north. 4 And tell the people that they are about to travel near the land that belongs to the descendants of Esau, who are also descendants of Isaac, as you are. They live in the hilly area of Edom. They will be afraid of you, but be very careful. 5 Do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you even a tiny bit of their land. That is because I have given that land to the descendants of Esau. 6 When you travel near their land, buy food and water from them.’

7 Remember that Yahweh our God has blessed you in everything that you have done. He knows what has happened to you while you have wandered in this huge desert. Yahweh our God has protected you during those 40 years, and as a result you have had everything that you needed.

8 So we continued to travel. We avoided going through the hilly area where the descendants of Esau, who are also descendants of Isaac, live. We turned from the road that goes along the plain of the Jordan valley, and comes up from the city of Elath and the city of Ezion Geber. We traveled along the wilderness road of the kingdom of Moab.

9 Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not bother the people of Moab. And do not start to fight against them, because I am not going to give you any of their land. The reason is that they are descendants of Lot. I gave them the city of Ar, their capital, and the other areas in that country.’

10 (A people group called the Emim formerly lived there. They were as populous and tall as the descendants of Anak. 11 People also call both them and the descendants of Anak the Rapha people. The people of Moab call them Emim. 12 The Hor people group also formerly lived in the Edom area, but the descendants of Esau expelled them. They killed them and settled in their land, just as the Israelite people later expelled their enemies from the land that Yahweh gave to them.)

13 Then we crossed the Zered Gorge, as Yahweh told us to do. 14 It had been 38 years from the time we first left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Gorge. During those years, all the Israelite fighting men of that generation died, as Yahweh had solemnly said would happen. 15 Furthermore, Yahweh opposed them, so he caused them to die.

16 After all the men who had been old enough to fight had died, 17 Yahweh said to me, 18 ‘Today you must travel through the region of Moab, near Ar, their city. 19 When you come near the border of the land where the Ammon people group live, do not bother them or start to fight against them. The reason is that they are also descendants of Lot, so I am not going to give you any of the land that I have given to them.’

20 (People also call that region the land of the Rapha people, who formerly lived there. The Ammon people group call them the Zamzum group. 21 They were as populous and tall as the descendants of Anak. But Yahweh caused them to die when the Ammon people group expelled them and settled in their land. 22 Yahweh had done the same thing for the descendants of Esau living in the hilly area of Edom. He caused the Hor people group to die when the Edom people group expelled them and settled in their land. The Edom people group still lives there. 23 As for the Av people group, they lived in towns as far south as Gaza. The Caphtor people group from the island of Crete killed the Av people group and settled in their land.)

24 After we had gone through the region of Moab, Yahweh said to us, ‘Now cross the Arnon River. Be assured that I will help you to defeat the army of Sihon. Sihon is the king of the Amor people group, who lives in the city of Heshbon. So attack their army and start to take their land from them. 25 Today I will begin to frighten everyone, everywhere on your behalf. Then, everyone who hears about you will be very afraid of you.’

26 Then I sent messengers to go from where we were in the Desert of Kedemoth to King Sihon at Heshbon. I told them to give him this peaceful message: 27 ‘Please allow us to travel through your land. We promise that we will stay on the road. We will not turn off to the right or to the left. 28 We will pay you for food and water. We want only to walk through your land 29 until we cross the Jordan River into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us. Do for us just as the descendants of Esau who live in the Edom area and the Moab people group who live in the city of Ar did for us when they allowed us to go through their land.’ 30 But King Sihon of Heshbon would not allow us to go through his country. That is because Yahweh our God caused him to be stubborn so that Yahweh could cause us to defeat his army and take his land, in which we still live.

31 Yahweh said to me, ‘Be assured that I am starting to allow you to defeat Sihon’s army and to take the people’s land from them. So start to occupy it!’

32 Then Sihon and his soldiers marched out to fight against us at the town of Jahaz. 33 But Yahweh our God caused us to defeat them. We killed Sihon, his sons, and all his soldiers. 34 We captured and destroyed all of King Sihon’s cities. We killed the men, women, and children. We did not allow any of them to remain alive. 35 However, we did take the livestock and valuable things from the cities that we captured. 36 Yahweh our God caused us to capture all their towns from the city of Aroer in the south, which is at the edge of the Arnon River Valley, to the region of Gilead in the north. Some of their cities had walls around them, but we were still able to capture them. 37 But we did not go near the area where the Ammon people group lives, the banks of the Jabbok River, the towns of the hilly area, or any other place where Yahweh our God told us not to go.

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