Deuteronomy 2:4–19

⁴And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.

⁵Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.

⁶You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.

⁷The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.

⁸And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.

⁹And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.

¹⁰The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,

¹¹They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.

¹²The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the Lord gave him.

¹³Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.

¹⁴And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:

¹⁵For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.

¹⁶And after all the fighting men were dead,

¹⁷The Lord spoke to me, saying:

¹⁸Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:

¹⁹And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.