Deuteronomy 2:4–19

^4aand command the people, saying, “You will 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 purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

⁷“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all ¹that you have done; He has known your ²wanderings through this ^agreat wilderness. These ^bforty years the Lord 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 the Lord 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.

^12aThe 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 did to the land of ¹their possession which the Lord gave to them.)

¹³‘Now arise and cross over the ¹brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the brook 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 perished from within the camp, as ^cthe Lord had sworn to them.

¹⁵“^aMoreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.

¹⁶“So it came about when ^aall the men of war had finally perished from among the people,

¹⁷that the Lord spoke to me, saying,

¹⁸‘Today you shall cross over ^aAr, the border of Moab.

¹⁹‘When you 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.’