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'You have circledthismountainlongenough. Now turnnorth,
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3and command the people, saying, "You will pass through the 4territory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and 5they will be afraid of you. So be verycareful;
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do not [b]provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a [c]footstep**6because I have givenMountSeir to Esau as a possession.
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"You shall buyfood from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall alsopurchasewater from them with money so that you may drink.
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"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all[d]that you have done; He has known your [e]wanderings through this7greatwilderness. These8fortyyears the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing."'
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"So we passedbeyond* our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the 9Arabahroad, away from Elath and 10from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passedthrough by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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"Then the LORDsaid to me, 'Do not harassMoab, norprovoke them to war, for I will not give you any of [f]their land as a possession, because I have given11Ar to 12the sons of Lot as a possession.
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(The 13Emimlived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.
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Like the Anakim, they are alsoregarded as 14Rephaim, but the Moabitescall them Emim.
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15The Horitesformerlylived in Seir, but the sons of Esaudispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, 16just as Israeldid to the land of [g]their possessionwhich the LORDgave to them.)
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'Nowarise and crossover the brookZered yourselves.' So we crossedover the brookZered.
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"Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barneauntil* we crossedover the brookZered was 17thirty-eight*years, until18all the generation of the men of warperished from within the camp, as 19the LORD had sworn to them.
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"20Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from within the campuntil they all perished.
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"So it came about when21all the men of war had finallyperished* from among the people,
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'Today you shall crossover22Ar, the border of Moab.
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'When you comeopposite the 23sons of Ammon, do not harass them norprovoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to 24the sons of Lot as a possession.'
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(It is alsoregarded as the land of the 25Rephaim, for Rephaimformerlylived in it, but the Ammonitescall them Zamzummin,
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a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the LORDdestroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
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just as He did for the sons of Esau, who 26live in Seir, when He destroyed27the Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their placeeven to thisday.
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And the 28Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the 29Caphtorim who came from 30Caphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)
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'Arise, set out, and passthrough the 31valley of Arnon. Look! I have givenSihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to takepossession and contend with him in battle.
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'Thisday I will begin to put32the dread and fear of you upon the peopleseverywhereunder the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, 33will tremble and be in anguishbecause* of you.'
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"34So I sentmessengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihonking of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
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'Let me pass through your land, I will travel only on the highway; I will not turnaside to the right or to the left.
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'You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, 35only let me passthrough on foot,
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just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in 36Ardid for me, until* I crossover the Jordan into the landwhich the LORD our God is giving to us.'
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"But 37Sihonking of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass through his land; for the 38LORD your Godhardened his spirit and made his heartobstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.
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"The LORDsaid to me, 'See, I have begun to deliverSihon and his landover to you. Begin to occupy, that you may possess his land.'
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"Then Sihon with all his peoplecame out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.
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"39The LORD our Goddelivered him over to us, and we 40defeated him with his sons and all his people.
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"So we capturedall his cities at that time and 41utterlydestroyed the men, women and children of everycity. We leftnosurvivor.
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"We took42only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the citieswhich we had captured.
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"From 43Aroerwhich is on the edge of the valley of Arnon and from the citywhich is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was nocity that was toohigh for us; the LORD our Goddeliveredallover to us.
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"44Only you did not gonear to the land of the sons of Ammon, allalong the river45Jabbok and the cities of the hillcountry, and wherever* the LORD our God had commanded us.