Deuteronomy 2:4–19

⁴And command the people, saying, ^d“You are about to pass through the territory of ^eyour brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully. ⁵Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, ^fbecause I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ⁶You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.

⁷“For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your ²trudging through this great wilderness. ^gThese forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.” ’

⁸“And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from ^hElath and Ezion Geber, we ⁱturned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab. ⁹Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given ^jAr to ^kthe descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”

^10l(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as ^mthe Anakim. ¹¹They were also regarded as ³giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ¹²ⁿThe Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their ⁴place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)

¹³“ ‘Now rise and cross over ^othe ⁵Valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered. ¹⁴And the time we took to come ^pfrom Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, ^quntil all the generation of the men of war ⁶was consumed from the midst of the camp, ^rjust as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they ⁷were consumed.

¹⁶“So it was, when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people, ¹⁷that the Lord spoke to me, saying: ¹⁸‘This day you are to cross over at Ar, the boundary of Moab. ¹⁹And when you come near the people of Ammon, do not harass them or meddle with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to ^sthe descendants of Lot as a possession.’ ”