1Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Yahuah (LORD) spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
2And Yahuah (LORD) spake unto me, saying,
3You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
4And command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take you good heed unto yourselves therefore:
5Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.
6You shall buy meat of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
7For Yahuah Elohayka (the LORD thy God) has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahuah Elohayka (the LORD thy God) has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
8And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9And Yahuah (LORD) said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give you of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
10The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
12The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Yashar'el (Israel) did unto the land of his possession, which Yahuah (LORD) gave unto them.
13Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
14And the space in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host, as Yahuah (LORD) sware unto them.
15For indeed the hand of Yahuah (LORD) was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
16So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17That Yahuah (LORD) spake unto me, saying,
18You are to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
19And when you come nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
20(That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Yahuah (LORD) destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:
22As he did to the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, when he destroyed the Horims from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even unto this day:
23And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
24Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.
26And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
28You shall sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which Yahuah Eloheinu (the LORD our God) gives us.
30But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for Yahuah Elohayka (the LORD thy God) hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appears this day.
31And Yahuah (LORD) said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
32Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33And Yahuah Eloheinu (the LORD our God) delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:
35Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
36From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Yahuah Eloheinu (the LORD our God) delivered all unto us:
37Only unto the land of the children of Ammon you came not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever Yahuah Eloheinu (the LORD our God) forbad us.