Numbers 21:10–20

JOURNEY AROUND MOAB

¹⁰The Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.^{n 11}They set out from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness that borders Moab on the east. ¹²From there they went and camped at Zered Valley. ¹³They set out from there and camped on the other side of the Arnon River, in the wilderness that extends from the Amorite border, because the Arnon was the Moabite border between Moab and the Amorites. ¹⁴Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Lord’s Wars:

Waheb in Suphah

and the ravines of the Arnon,

¹⁵even the slopes of the ravines

that extend to the site of Ar^a

and lie along the border of Moab.

¹⁶From there they went to Beer,^A the well the Lord told Moses about, “Gather the people so I may give them water.” ¹⁷Then Israel sang this song:

Spring up, well—sing to it!

¹⁸The princes dug the well;

the nobles of the people hollowed it out

with a scepter and with their staffs.

They went from the wilderness to Mattanah, ¹⁹from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth, ²⁰from Bamoth to the valley in the territory of Moab near the Pisgah highlands^b that overlook the wasteland.^Bc