Deuteronomy 2:4–19

^4aand command the people, saying, “You are going to pass through the ^bterritory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and ^cthey will be afraid of you. So be very careful;

⁵do not ¹provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a ²footstep ^abecause I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

⁶“You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also bargain with them for water with money so that you may drink.

⁷“For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your ¹wanderings through this ^agreat wilderness. These ^bforty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.” ’

⁸“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the ^aArabah road, away from Elath and ^bfrom Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

⁹“Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of ¹their land as a possession because I have given ^aAr to ^bthe sons of Lot as a possession.’

¹⁰(The ^aEmim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

¹¹Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as ^aRephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

^12aNow the Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, ^bjust as Israel would do to the land of ¹their possession which Yahweh gave to them.)

¹³‘Now arise and cross over the ¹brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the ²brook Zered.

¹⁴“Now the ¹time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the ²brook Zered was ^athirty-eight years, until ^ball the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as ^cYahweh had sworn to them.

¹⁵“^aMoreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp until they all came to an end.

¹⁶“So it happened when ^aall the men of war had come to an end in death from among the people,

¹⁷that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

¹⁸‘Today you are about to cross over ^aAr, the border of Moab.

¹⁹‘And you will come opposite the ^asons of Ammon. Do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession because I have given it to ^bthe sons of Lot as a possession.’