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Though they are afraid of you, be very careful <span id="v05002005" class="ver">5</span>not to come in conflict with them, for I will not give you so much as a foot of their land, since I have already given Esau possession of the highlands of Seir.<a id="ren05002005-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002005-c">c</a> <span id="v05002006" class="ver">6</span>You shall purchase from them with money the food you eat; even the water you drink you shall buy from them with money. <span id="v05002007" class="ver">7</span>Surely, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned<a id="rfn05002007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05002007-1">*</a> about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.<a id="ren05002007-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002007-d">d</a> <span id="v05002008" class="ver">8</span>So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, leaving behind us the Arabah route, Elath, and Ezion-geber.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Along Moab.</span> Then we turned and passed on toward the wilderness of Moab. <span id="v05002009" class="ver">9</span><a id="ren05002009-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002009-e">e</a> And the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, Do not show hostility to the Moabites or engage them in battle, for I will not give you possession of any of their land, since I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.<a id="ren05002009-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002009-f">f</a> <span id="v05002010" class="ver">10</span>(Formerly the Emim lived there, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim;<a id="ren05002010-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002010-g">g</a> <span id="v05002011" class="ver">11</span>like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.<a id="ren05002011-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002011-h">h</a> <span id="v05002012" class="ver">12</span>In Seir, however, the former inhabitants were the Horites;<a id="ren05002012-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002012-i">i</a> the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, clearing them out of the way and dwelling in their place, just as Israel has done in the land of its possession which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> gave it.) <span id="v05002013" class="ver">13</span>Now get ready to cross the Wadi Zered.</p> <p>So we crossed the Wadi Zered. <span id="v05002014" class="ver">14</span><a id="ren05002014-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002014-j">j</a> Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had sworn they should. <span id="v05002015" class="ver">15</span>Indeed the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s own hand was against them, to rout them from the camp completely.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Along Ammon.</span> <span id="v05002016" class="ver">16</span><a id="ren05002016-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002016-k">k</a> When at length death had put an end to all the soldiers among the people, <span id="v05002017" class="ver">17</span>the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, <span id="v05002018" class="ver">18</span>You are now about to leave Ar and the territory of Moab behind. <span id="v05002019" class="ver">19</span>As you come opposite the Ammonites,<a id="ren05002019-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002019-l">l</a> do not show hostility or come in conflict with them, for I will not give you possession of any land of the Ammonites, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession. <span id="v05002020" class="ver">20</span>(This also is considered a country of the Rephaim; formerly the Rephaim dwelt there. The Ammonites call them Zamzummim,<a id="ren05002020-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002020-m">m</a> <span id="v05002021" class="ver">21</span>a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. But these, too, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> cleared out of the way for the Ammonites, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place.<a id="ren05002021-n" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002021-n">n</a> <span id="v05002022" class="ver">22</span>He did the same for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, by clearing the Horites out of their way, so that they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place down to the present.<a id="ren05002022-o" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002022-o">o</a> <span id="v05002023" class="ver">23</span>As for the Avvim, who once lived in villages in the vicinity of Gaza,<a id="rfn05002023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05002023-1">*</a> the Caphtorim, migrating from Caphtor, cleared them away and dwelt in their place.)<a id="ren05002023-p" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002023-p">p</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Defeat of Sihon.</span> <span id="v05002024" class="ver">24</span><a id="ren05002024-q" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002024-q">q</a> Advance now across the Wadi Arnon. I now deliver into your power Sihon, the Amorite king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession; engage him in battle.<a id="ren05002024-r" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002024-r">r</a> <span id="v05002025" class="ver">25</span>This day I will begin to put a fear and dread of you into the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that at the mention of your name they will quake and tremble before you.</p> <p><span id="v05002026" class="ver">26</span>So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with this offer of peace: <span id="v05002027" class="ver">27</span>“Let me pass through your country. I will travel only on the road. I will not turn aside either to the right or to the left. <span id="v05002028" class="ver">28</span>The food I eat you will sell me for money, and the water I drink, you will give me for money. Only let me march through, <span id="v05002029" class="ver">29</span>as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Ar have done, until I cross the Jordan into the land the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, is about to give us.”<a id="ren05002029-s" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002029-s">s</a> <span id="v05002030" class="ver">30</span>But Sihon, king of Heshbon, refused to let us pass through his land, because the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, your God, made him stubborn in mind and obstinate in heart that he might deliver him into your power, as indeed he has now done.</p> <p><span id="v05002031" class="ver">31</span>Then the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to me, Now that I have already begun to give over to you Sihon and his land, begin to take possession. <span id="v05002032" class="ver">32</span>So Sihon and all his people advanced against us to join battle at Jahaz; <span id="v05002033" class="ver">33</span>but since the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, had given him over to us, we defeated him and his sons and all his people. <span id="v05002034" class="ver">34</span><a id="ren05002034-t" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002034-t">t</a> At that time we captured all his cities and put every city under the ban,<a id="rfn05002034-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn05002034-1">*</a> men, women and children; we left no survivor. <span id="v05002035" class="ver">35</span>Our only plunder was the livestock and the spoils of the captured cities. <span id="v05002036" class="ver">36</span>From Aroer on the edge of the Wadi Arnon and from the town in the wadi itself, as far as Gilead,<a id="ren05002036-u" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002036-u">u</a> no city was too well fortified for us. All of them the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, gave over to us. <span id="v05002037" class="ver">37</span>However, just as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, our God, commanded us, you did not encroach upon any of the Ammonite land, neither the region bordering on the Wadi Jabbok, nor the cities of the highlands.<a id="ren05002037-v" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en05002037-v">v</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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