Deuteronomy 2:4–19

⁴And command thou the people, saying, ^cYe are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, ^dwhich dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: ^5eMeddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, ^†no, not so much as a foot breadth; ^dbecause I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession. ⁶Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. ⁷For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: ^fthese forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing. ^8gAnd when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from ^hElath, and from ⁱEzion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹And the Lord said unto me, ^||Distress not the Moabites, neither ^econtend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given ^jAr unto ^kthe children of Lot for a possession. ^10lThe Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as ^mthe Anakims; ¹¹Which also were accounted ⁿgiants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims. ^12oThe Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau ^†succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their ^||stead; as ^pIsrael did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them. ¹³Now rise up, ^qsaid I, and get you over the ^||brook Zered. And we went over the ^||brook Zered. ¹⁴And the space in which we came from ^rKadesh-barnea, until we were come over the ^||brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; ^suntil all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as the Lord sware unto them. ¹⁵For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.

¹⁶So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people, ¹⁷That the Lord spake unto me, saying, ¹⁸Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day: ¹⁹And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor ^emeddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto ^tthe children of Lot for a possession.