Deuteronomy 2:1-16 ▼

1 “And we turn and journey into the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea, as YHWH has spoken to me, and we go around Mount Seir [for] many days.

2 And YHWH speaks to me, saying,

3 For you go around this mountain long enough; turn for yourselves northward.

4 And the people command you, saying, You are passing over into the border of your brothers, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, and they are afraid of you; and you have been very watchful;

5 you do not strive with them, for I do not give [any] of their land to you—even the treading of the sole of a foot; I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

6 You buy food from them with money, and have eaten; and you also buy water from them with money, and have drunk.

7 For your God YHWH has blessed you in all the work of your hands; He has known your walking in this great wilderness these forty years; your God YHWH [is] with you; you have not lacked anything.

8 And we pass by from our brothers, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath and by Ezion-Gaber, and we turn and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab;

9 and YHWH says to me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir yourself up against them [in] battle, for I do not give [any] of their land to you [for] a possession; for I have given Ar to the sons of Lot [for] a possession.

10 The Emim have formerly dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall as the Anakim;

11 they are reckoned [as] Rephaim, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.

12 And the Horim have formerly dwelt in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel has done to the land of his possession which YHWH has given to them.

13 Now rise and pass over the Brook of Zered for yourselves; and we pass over the Brook of Zered.

14 And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until we have passed over the Brook of Zered [are] thirty-eight years, until the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as YHWH has sworn to them;

15 and indeed the hand of YHWH has been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they are consumed.

16 And it comes to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,