Deut 2
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Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea,
as YHWH spoke to me; and we compassed mount Seir many days.
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And YHWH spoke to me, saying,
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You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
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And command you the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brethren
the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take you
good heed to yourselves therefore;
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contend not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for
the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
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You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy
water of them for money, that you may drink.
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For YHWH your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your
walking through this great wilderness: these forty years YHWH your God has been with
you; you have lacked nothing.
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So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, from the
way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by
the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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And YHWH said to me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will
not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children
of Lot for a possession.
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(The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
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these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
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The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them;
and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did
to the land of his possession, which YHWH gave to them.)
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Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
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And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook
Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were
consumed from the midst of the camp, as YHWH swore to them.
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Moreover the hand of YHWH was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the
camp, until they were consumed.
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So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the
people,
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that YHWH spoke to me, saying,
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You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:
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and when you come nigh over against the children of Ammon, vex them not, nor contend
with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession;
because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
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(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime; but the
Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
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a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but YHWH destroyed them before
them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;
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as he did for the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites
from before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead even to this day:
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and the Avvim, that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, that came forth
out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
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Rise you up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the 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.
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This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the peoples
that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble,
and be in anguish because of you.
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And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with
words of peace, saying,
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Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither
to the right hand nor to the left.
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You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that
I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
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as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did
to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which YHWH our God gives us.
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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for YHWH your God hardened
his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand,
as at this day.
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And YHWH said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before
you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
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Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
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And YHWH our God delivered him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all
his people.
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And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city,
with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
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only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which
we had taken.
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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that
is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; YHWH our God
delivered up all before us:
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only to the land of the children of Ammon you came not near; all the side of the river
Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever YHWH our God forbade us.