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For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul has been weary of this light bread.”<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And YHWH sends the burning serpents among the people, and they bite the people, and many people of Israel die; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and the people come to Moses and say, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against YHWH and against you; pray to YHWH that He turns the serpent aside from us”; and Moses prays in behalf of the people. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And YHWH says to Moses, “Make a burning [serpent] for yourself, and set it on an ensign; and it has been, everyone who is bitten and has seen it—he has lived.” <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Moses makes a serpent of bronze, and sets it on the ensign, and it has been, if the serpent has bitten any man, and he has looked expectingly to the serpent of bronze—he has lived.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the sons of Israel journey and encamp in Oboth. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they journey from Oboth and encamp in Ije-Abarim, in the wilderness that [is] on the front of Moab, at the rising of the sun. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>From there they have journeyed and encamp in the Valley of Zared. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From there they have journeyed and encamp beyond Arnon, which [is] in the wilderness which is coming out of the border of the Amorite, for Arnon [is] the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite;<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>therefore it is said in [the] scroll of the Wars of YHWH: “Waheb in Suphah, "" And the brooks of Arnon;<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the spring of the brooks, "" Which turned aside to the dwelling of Ar, "" And has leaned to the border of Moab.”<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And from there [they journeyed] to Beer; it [is] the well [concerning] which YHWH said to Moses, “Gather the people, and I give water to them.”<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then Israel sings this song: “Spring up, O well, "" Let all answer to it!<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>A well—princes have dug it, "" Nobles of the people have prepared it, "" With the lawgiver, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness [they journeyed] to Mattanah,<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and from Bamoth, in the valley which [is] in the field of Moab, [to] the top of Pisgah, which has looked on the front of the wilderness.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Israel sends messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite, saying, <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Let me pass through your land, we do not turn aside into a field or into a vineyard; we do not drink waters of a well; we go in the king’s way until we pass over your border.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>And Sihon has not permitted Israel to pass through his border, and Sihon gathers all his people, and comes out to meet Israel in the wilderness, and comes to Jahaz, and fights against Israel. <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Israel strikes him by the mouth of the sword, and possesses his land from Arnon to Jabbok—to the sons of Ammon; for the border of the sons of Ammon [is] strong. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Israel takes all these cities, and Israel dwells in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its villages; <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>for Heshbon is a city of Sihon king of the Amorite, and he has fought against the former king of Moab, and takes all his land out of his hand as far as Arnon;<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>therefore those using allegories say: “Enter Heshbon, "" Let the city of Sihon be built and ready,<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For fire has gone out from Heshbon, "" A flame from the city of Sihon, "" It has consumed Ar of Moab, "" Owners of the high places of Arnon.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Woe to you, O Moab, "" You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons [as] fugitives, "" And his daughters into captivity, "" To Sihon king of the Amorite!<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And we shoot them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon, "" And we make desolate as far as Nophah, "" Which [is] as far as Medeba.”<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Israel dwells in the land of the Amorite, <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>and Moses sends to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who [is] there,<p> <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>and turn and go up the way of Bashan, and Og king of Bashan comes out to meet them, he and all his people, to battle [at] Edrei. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And YHWH says to Moses, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him, and all his people, and his land, and you have done to him as you have done to Sihon king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And they strike him, and his sons, and all his people, until he has no remnant left to him, and they possess his land.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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