Deuteronomy 2:8-19

Legacy Standard Bible

⁸ “So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the ^(A)Arabah road, away from Elath and ^(B)from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹ Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of ^[a]their land as a possession because I have given ^(C)Ar to ^(D)the sons of Lot as a possession.’ ¹⁰ (The ^(E)Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. ¹¹ Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as ^(F)Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ^12 (G)Now the Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, ^(H)just as Israel would do to the land of ^[b]their possession which Yahweh gave to them.) ¹³ ‘Now arise and cross over the ^[c]brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the ^[d]brook Zered. ¹⁴ Now the ^[e]time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the ^[f]brook Zered was ^(I)thirty-eight years, until ^(J)all the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as ^(K)Yahweh had sworn to them. ^15 (L)Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp until they all came to an end.

¹⁶ “So it happened when ^(M)all the men of war had come to an end in death from among the people, ¹⁷ that Yahweh spoke to me, saying, ¹⁸ ‘Today you are about to cross over ^(N)Ar, the border of Moab. ¹⁹ And you will come opposite the ^(O)sons of Ammon. Do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession because I have given it to ^(P)the sons of Lot as a possession.’