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Numbers 21:14

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21:14This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,

“Waheb in Suphah23 and the wadis,

the Arnon

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Footnotes

  1. 23 The ancient versions show a wide variation here: has “Waheb on the Sea of Reeds,” the Greek version has “he has set Zoob on fire and the torrents of Arnon.” Several modern versions treat the first line literally, taking the two main words as place names: Waheb and Suphah. This seems most likely, but then there would then be no subject or verb. One would need something like “the Israelites marched through.” The , following the , made the first word a verb and read the second as “Red Sea”—“what he did in the Red Sea.” But subject of the passage is the terrain. D. L. Christensen proposed emending the first part from אֶת וָהֵב (’et vahev) to אַתָּה יְהוָה (’attah yehvah, “the Lord came”). But this is subjective. See his article “Num 21:14–15 and the Book of the Wars of Yahweh,” 36 (1974): 359–60.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,

“Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

That is why the Book of the Wars of the Lord says:

“… Zahab in Suphah and the ravines,

the Arnon

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Lord’s Wars:

Waheb in Suphah

and the ravines of the Arnon,

NLTNew Living Translation

For this reason The Book of the Wars of the Lord speaks of “the town of Waheb in the area of Suphah, and the ravines of the Arnon River,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Therefore thus it is said in the scroll of the Wars of Yahweh,

“Waheb in Suphah,

and the wadis of Arnon,

KJV 1900King James Version

Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord,

What he did in the Red sea,

And in the brooks of Arnon,