1 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as Jehovah spoke to me: and we wandered around mount Seir many days.
2 And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
3 you have wandered around this mountain long enough: turn you Northward.
4 And command you the people, saying, you are to pass through the coast of your brothers the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take you good heed to yourselves therefore:
5 Meddle 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 to Esau for a possession.
6 you 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.
7 For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand: he knows your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
8 And when we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Eziongaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9 And Jehovah said to 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 to the children of Lot for a possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites call them Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir previously; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt instead of them; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Jehovah gave to them.
13 Now rise up, said I, and get yourself over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
14 And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were completely destroyed from among the host, as Jehovah swore to them.
15 For indeed the hand of Jehovah was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were completely destroyed.
16 When all the men of war were completely destroyed and dead from among the people,
17 Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
18 You are to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
19 And when you come near 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 to 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;
21 A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt instead of them:
22 As 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 instead of them even to this day:
23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even to Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt instead of them.)
24 Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: 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.
25 This 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.
26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of complete soundness and completeness, saying,
27 Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left.
28 You 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 to me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God gives us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for Jehovah your God hardened his spirit, and made his mind obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as appears this day.
31 And Jehovah said to me, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you; begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And Jehovah our God delivered him before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
34 And 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:
35 But the cattle and the spoil of the cities which we captured did we keep.
36 From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even to Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: Jehovah our God delivered all to us:
37 Only to the land of the children of Ammon you came not, nor to any place of the river Jabbok, nor to the cities in the mountains, nor to whatever Jehovah our God forbad us.