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And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour:
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And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.
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Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.
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Upon which they came to Moses, and said; We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.
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And the Lord said to him: Make a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.
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Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.
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And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.
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And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.
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And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:
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Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.
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Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Arnon.
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The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.
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When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:
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The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.
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From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
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From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
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And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
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I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king’s highway, till we be past thy borders.
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And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa and fought against them.
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And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.