Deuteronomy 2:8–23

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.