2“Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea,^l as the Lord had told me, and we traveled around the hill country of Seir for many days. ²The Lord then said to me, ³‘You’ve been traveling around this hill country long enough; turn north.^m ⁴Command the people: You are about to travel through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so be very careful. ⁵Don’t provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot of it,^B because I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession.ⁿ ⁶You may purchase food from them, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink.^o ⁷For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands.^p He has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you these past forty years, and you have lacked nothing.’^q

JOURNEY PAST MOAB

⁸“So we bypassed our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road and from Elath and Ezion-geber.^r We traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab.

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Footnotes

B land as far as the width of a sole of a foot

Cross references

l Ex 10:19; 13:18; 15:4,22; 23:31; Nm 21:4; Dt 1:40
m Dt 1:6
n Ezk 25:12–14
o Nm 20:14–21
p Dt 30:9
q Dt 8:2–4; 29:5; Neh 9:21
r Nm 33:35–36; 1Kg 9:26