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 you must be very careful. ⁵Don’t fight with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even an inch of it, ^qbecause I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his possession. ^r⁶You may purchase food from them with silver, so that you may eat, and buy water from them to drink. ^s⁷For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. ^tHe has watched over your journey through this immense wilderness. The Lord your God has been with you this past 40 years, and you have lacked nothing.’ ^u

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. ^vWe traveled along the road to the Wilderness of Moab. ⁹The Lord said to me, ‘Show no hostility toward Moab, and do not provoke them to battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, since I have given Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.’ ” ^w

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Footnotes

q2:5 land as far as the width of a sole of a foot

Cross references

r2:5 Ezk 25:12–14
s2:1–6 Nm 20:14–21
t2:7 Dt 30:9
u2:7 Dt 8:2–4; 29:5; Neh 9:21
v2:8 Nm 33:35–36; 1Kg 9:26
w2:9 Gn 19:36–37; Ezk 25:8–11; Am 2:1–2; Mc 6:5; Zph 2:8–9