Deuteronomy 2:1-21 ▼

1 And turning and removing to the desert the way of the sea of sedge, as Jehovah spake to me: and encompassing mount Seir many days.

2 And Jehovah will speak to me, saying,

3 It was enough to you to encompass this mount; turn for yourselves to the north,

4 And command the people, saying, Ye are passing over through the bound of your brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: and ye shall watch greatly.

5 Ye shall not contend with them, for I will not give to you from their land even to the treading of the sole of the foot, for I gave mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

6 Ye shall buy food from them for silver, and ye ate: and also shall ye buy water from them for silver, and ye drank.

7 For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in every work of thy hand: he knew thy going in this great desert: this forty years Jehovah thy God with thee; thou didst not lack a word.

8 And we shall pass by our brethren the sons of Esau, dwelling in Seir, from the way of the sterile region from Elath, and from Ezion-Gaber, we shall turn and shall pass over the way of the desert of Moab.

9 And Jehovah will say to me, Thou shalt not press Moab, and thou shalt not contend with them in war; for I shall not give to thee his land a possession, for to the sons of Lot I gave Ar a possession.

10 (The Emims dwelt in it before them, a people great and many and high as the Anakims;

11 And they will be reckoned Rephaims also, as the Anakims; and the Moabites will call them Emims.

12 And the Horims dwelt in Seir before them, and the sons of Esau will inherit them, and they will destroy them from before them, and they will dwell instead of them; as Israel did to the land of his possession which Jehovah gave to them.)

13 Now rise up and pass over for yourselves the valley Zered; and we shall pass through the torrent Zered.

14 And the days which we came from Kadesh-Barnea till we passed over the valley Zered, thirty and eight years; till all the generation of men of war was finished from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware to them.

15 For also the hand of Jehovah was against them to finish them from the midst of the camp, till their finishing.

16 And it will be as when all the men of war were finished to die from the midst of the people,

17 And Jehovah will speak to me, saying,

18 Pass thou over this day Ar, the boundary of Moab:

19 And thou camest near over against the sons of Ammon, thou shalt not press them, and thou shalt not contend with them: for I will not give from the land of the sons of Ammon to thee a possession; for to the sons of Lot I gave it a possession.

20 It also shall be reckoned the land of the Rephaims; the Rephaims dwelt in it before them, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummims;

21 A people great and many, and high as the Anakims; and Jehovah will destroy them from before their face; and they will inherit them and will dwell instead of them: