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.

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Footnotes

dOr “command”
eLiterally “to say”
fOr “sons”
gOr “provoke”
hLiterally “a sole’s foot of space”
iLiterally “the work of your hand”
jLiterally “your journeying”
kOr “sons”
lOr “Jordan Valley” since the Arabah is an extension of it
mOr “wilderness”
nOr “battle”
oOr “sons”
pOr “great” in the sense of influential
qOr “sons”
rLiterally “from their presence”
sLiterally “its/his”
tA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
uA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
vLiterally “days”
wA valley that is dry most of the year, but contains a stream during the rainy season
xLiterally “And it happened”
yOr “battle”
zLiterally “had finished/completed to die”
aLiterally “to say”
bLiterally “the day”
cLiterally “opposite”
dLiterally “the sons/children of Ammon”
eLiterally “the sons/children of Ammon”
fOr “sons”