Deuteronomy 2

2“Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness^a in the direction of the Red Sea,^b as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days. ²Yahweh spoke to me, saying,^{c 3}‘Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north, ⁴and instruct^d the people, saying,^e “You are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendants^f of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful. ⁵Do not get involved in battle^g with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot’s breadth^h of it; since I have given Mount Seir as a possession for Esau. ⁶You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. ⁷The fact of the matter is, Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work you have done;ⁱ he knows your travels^j with respect to this great wilderness; forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.” ’ ⁸And so we passed by our brothers, the descendants^k of Esau, who live in Seir, past the road of the Arabah,^l from Elath and Ezion Geber, and we turned and traveled along the route of the desert^m of Moab.

⁹And Yahweh said to me, ‘You shall not attack Moab, and you shall not engage in warⁿ with them, for I will not give you any of his land as a possession; I have given Ar to the descendants^o of Lot as a possession.’ ¹⁰(The Emim previously lived in it, a people large,^p numerous, and tall, like the Anakites. ¹¹They were reckoned also as Rephaim as the Anakites were; but the Moabites called them Emim. ¹²The Horites previously lived in Seir, but the descendants^q of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from among themselves,^r as Israel did with respect to the land of their^s possession that Yahweh gave to them.) ¹³So now arise and cross over the wadi^t of Zered yourselves; and so we crossed the wadi^u of Zered. ¹⁴Now the length of time^v that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until the time when we crossed the wadi^w of Zered was thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; that is, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them. ¹⁵The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely.

¹⁶“And then^x when all the men of war^y had died^z from among the people, ¹⁷Yahweh spoke to me, saying,^{a 18}‘You are about to cross over the boundary of Moab today^b at Ar. ¹⁹When you approach the border of^c the Ammonites,^d you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of the Ammonites^e to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendants^f of Lot as a possession. ²⁰(It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it previously,^g and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim, ²¹a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them,^h and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them, ²²just as he did for the descendantsⁱ of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them^j and dispossessed them, and then they settled in their^k place up to this day. ²³And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place. ²⁴Arise,^l set out and cross over the wadi^m of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, the king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession of it, and engage with him in battle. ²⁵This day I will begin to place the dread of youⁿ and the fear of you before^o the peoples under all the heavens. They will hear the report about you,^p and so they will shake and tremble because of you.’ ^q

²⁶“So I sent messengers from the wilderness^r of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon; I sent terms of peace, saying,^{s 27}‘Let me cross through your land and only along the road^t I will go; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left. ²⁸Food for money you shall sell me, so that I may eat, and water for money you will give to me, so that I may drink; just let me cross on foot. ²⁹Just as the descendants^u of Esau did for me, who live in Seir, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, until I cross the Jordan into the land that Yahweh our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰But Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing to let us cross through his territory because Yahweh your God hardened his spirit and made him obstinate^v in order to give him^w into your hand, just as he has now done.^{x 31}Yahweh said to me, ‘Look! I have begun to give over to you^y Sihon and his land; begin to take possession of his land.’^{z 32}Then Sihon and all his people came out to meet us for battle at Jahaz. ³³And so Yahweh our God gave him over to us,^a and we struck him down, and his sons^b and all of his people. ³⁴So we captured all of his cities at that time, and we destroyed each town of males and the women and the children; we did not leave behind a survivor. ³⁵We took only the livestock as spoil for ourselves,^c and also the booty of the cities that we had captured. ³⁶From Aroer, which is on the edge of the wadi^d of Arnon and the city that was in the wadi^e on up to Gilead, there was not a city that was inaccessible to us; Yahweh our God gave everything^f to us.^{g 37}Only the land of the Ammonites^h you did not approach, all along the whole upper region of the Jabbok Riverⁱ and the towns of the hill country, according to all that Yahweh our God had instructed.