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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/><title>Numbers 21 JPS Tanakh 1917</title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/jps/numbers/21.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/21.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/">Bible</a> > <a href="../">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> > Numbers 21</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/20.htm" title="Numbers 20">◄</a> Numbers 21 <a href="../numbers/22.htm" title="Numbers 22">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Israel vowed a vow unto the LORD, and said: ‘If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And the LORD 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 <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Hormah. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>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 became impatient because of the way. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the people spoke against God, and against Moses: ‘Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And the people came to Moses, and said: ‘We have sinned, because we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the LORD, that He take away the serpents from us.’ And Moses prayed for the people. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites.—For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD:<br></div><div class="po2">Vaheb in Suphah,</div><div class="po2">And the valleys of Arnon,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And the slope of the valleys</div><div class="po2">That inclineth toward the seat of Ar,</div><div class="po2">And leaneth upon the border of Moab.—</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And from thence to <span class="fn"><a href="#ftn">a</a></span>Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Gather the people together, and I will give them water.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then sang Israel this song:<br></div><div class="po2">Spring up, O well—sing ye unto it—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The well, which the princes digged,</div><div class="po2">Which the nobles of the people delved,</div><div class="po2">With the sceptre, and with their staves.</div><div class="po2">And from the wilderness to Mattanah;</div> <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert. <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying: <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>‘Let me pass through thy 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 thy border.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>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 unto the Arnon. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Wherefore they that speak in parables say:<br></div><div class="po2">Come ye to Heshbon!</div><div class="po2">Let the city of Sihon be built and established!</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>For a fire is gone out of Heshbon,</div><div class="po2">A flame from the city of Sihon;</div><div class="po2">It hath devoured Ar of Moab,</div><div class="po2">The lords of the high places of Arnon.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Woe to thee, Moab!</div><div class="po2">Thou art undone, O people of Chemosh;</div><div class="po2">He hath given his sons as fugitives,</div><div class="po2">And his daughters into captivity,</div><div class="po2">Unto Sihon king of the Amorites.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>We have shot at them—Heshbon is perished—even unto Dibon,</div><div class="po2">And we have laid waste even unto Nophah,</div><div class="po2">Which reacheth unto Medeba.</div> <p><span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>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. <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And the LORD said unto Moses: ‘Fear him not; for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="/numbers/21-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land.<hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><br>{fn: a} That is, Utter destruction.<br>{fn: b} That is, A well.</span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../numbers/20.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Numbers 20"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Numbers 20" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../numbers/22.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Numbers 22"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Numbers 22" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/numbers/21-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><div align="center" style="background-color:#F2FAFF"><br /><br /> <table align="center" width="90%" style="max-width:900px"><tr><td> <div id="rcjsload_a957f3"></div> <script type="text/javascript"> (function() { var referer="";try{if(referer=document.referrer,"undefined"==typeof referer||""==referer)throw"undefined"}catch(exception){referer=document.location.href,(""==referer||"undefined"==typeof referer)&&(referer=document.URL)}referer=referer.substr(0,700); 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