Deuteronomy 2:4–19

⁴‘And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing over into the border of your brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, and they are afraid of you; and ye have been very watchful, ⁵ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.

⁶‘Food ye buy from them with money, and have eaten; and also water ye buy from them with money, and have drunk, ⁷for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; Jehovah thy God is with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.

⁸‘And we pass by from our brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-Gaber; and we turn, and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab; ⁹and Jehovah saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them in battle, for I do not give to thee of their land for a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar for a possession.’ ¹⁰‘The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim; ¹¹Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim. ¹²And in Seir have the Horim dwelt formerly; and the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah hath given to them; ¹³now, rise ye, and pass over for yourselves the brook Zered; and we pass over the brook Zered.

¹⁴‘And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, are thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them; ¹⁵and also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.

¹⁶‘And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people, ¹⁷that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying, ¹⁸Thou art passing over to-day the border of Moab, even Ar, ¹⁹and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give any of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee for a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it for a possession.