Num 21
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And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel
came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.
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And Israel vowed a vow to YHWH, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into
my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
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And YHWH hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they
utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.
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And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of
Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
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And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Wherefore have you brought us
up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water;
and our soul loaths this light bread.
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And YHWH sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people
of Israel died.
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And the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, because we have spoken against
YHWH, and against you; pray to YHWH, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses
prayed for the people.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it upon a standard: and
it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.
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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the standard: and it came to pass,
that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.
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And the children of Israel journeyed, and encamped in Oboth.
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And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which
is before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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From there they journeyed, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
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From there they journeyed, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in
the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the
border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of YHWH, Vaheb in Suphah, And the valleys
of the Arnon,
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And the slope of the valleys That inclines toward the dwelling of Ar, And leans upon
the border of Moab.
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And from there [they journeyed] to Beer: that is the well whereof YHWH said to Moses,
Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well; sing you to it:
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The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people delved, With the sceptre,
[and] with their staffs. And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah;
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and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
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and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah,
which looks down upon the desert.
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And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard;
we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king`s highway, until
we have passed your border.
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And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all
his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to
Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.
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And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon
to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon
was strong.
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And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites,
in Heshbon, and in all its towns.
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For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against
the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.
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Wherefore they that speak in proverbs say, Come you to Heshbon; Let the city of Sihon
be built and established:
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For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, A flame from the city of Sihon: It has devoured
Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.
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Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, O people of Chemosh: He has given his sons as fugitives,
And his daughters into captivity, To Sihon king of the Amorites.
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We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, And we have laid waste
even to Nophah, Which [reaches] to Medeba.
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Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
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And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the
Amorites that were there.
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And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out
against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
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And YHWH said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and
all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of
the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
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So they smote him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him
remaining: and they possessed his land.