Deuteronomy 2:8–23

⁸So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned fromⁱ the Arabah^j road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber,^k and traveled along the desert road of Moab.^l

⁹Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Ar^m to the descendants of Lotⁿ as a possession.”

¹⁰(The Emites^o used to live there—a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^{p 11}Like the Anakites, they too were considered Rephaites,^q but the Moabites called them Emites. ¹²Horites^r used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did^s in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)

¹³And the Lord said, “Now get up and cross the Zered Valley.^t” So we crossed the valley.

¹⁴Thirty-eight years^u passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea^v until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, that entire generation^w of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.^{x 15}The Lord’s hand was against them until he had completely eliminated^y them from the camp.

¹⁶Now when the last of these fighting men among the people had died, ¹⁷the Lord said to me, ¹⁸“Today you are to pass by the region of Moab at Ar.^{z 19}When you come to the Ammonites,^a do not harass them or provoke them to war,^b for I will not give you possession of any land belonging to the Ammonites. I have given it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.^c”

²⁰(That too was considered a land of the Rephaites,^d who used to live there; but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. ²¹They were a people strong and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.^e The Lord destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place. ²²The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir,^f when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. ²³And as for the Avvites^g who lived in villages as far as Gaza,^h the Caphtoritesⁱ coming out from Caphtor^bj destroyed them and settled in their place.)