Deuteronomy 2
2:1And turning we departed into the wilderness by way of the red sea, in which manner the lord spoke to me. And we encircled mount Seir many days.
2:2And the lord said to me,
2:3Your encircling this mountain is enough; turn then towards the north!
2:4And you give charge to the people, saying, You go through the borders of your brethren, the sons of Esau, the ones dwelling in Seir! And they shall fear you, and shall be exceedingly cautious of you.
2:5You shall not join against them for war, for not in any way will I give to you of their land, nor a stool for your foot; for by lot I have given to Esau mount Seir.
2:6With silver buy foods from them and eat, and you shall receive measured out water from them by silver, and you shall drink.
2:7For the lord your God blessed you in every work of your hands. Determine how you went through that great and dreadful wilderness! Behold, forty years the lord your God was with you; you did not want of a thing.
2:8And we went by our brethren the sons of Esau, the ones dwelling in Seir, by the way of the wilderness from Aelon, and from Ezion Gaber; and turning we went by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
2:9And the lord said to me, Do not hate the Moabites, and do not join together against them in war! for in no way will I give to you of their land. For I have given Aroer by lot to the sons of Lot to inherit.
2:10The Emim prior laid in wait upon it, a great and populous nation, and strong, as the Anakim.
2:11And these shall be considered of the Raphaim as also the Anakim; and the Moabites named them Emim.
2:12And in Seir the Horite laid in wait the former one; and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and obliterated them from their face; and they settled in place of them in which manner Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the lord gave to them.
2:13Now then, I said, Rise up, and depart, and come near the ravine of Zared! And we went by the ravine of Zared.
2:14And the days which we passed from Kadesh Barnea until of which time we went by the ravine of Zared was thirty eight years, until of which time all the generation of men of war perished, dying from the camp, as the lord God swore by an oath to them.
2:15And the hand of God was upon them, to completely consume them from out of the midst of the camp, until they perished.
2:16And it came to pass, as soon as all the ones dying fell, men warriors, from out of the midst of the people,
2:17that the lord spoke to me, saying,
2:18You shall pass over today the borders of Moab -- the Aroer.
2:19And you shall lead near the sons of Ammon. Do not hate them, nor join against them in war! for I will not give from the land of the sons of Ammon to you by lot, for to the sons of Lot I have given it by lot.
2:20It shall be considered land of Raphaim, for even upon it the Raphaim formerly dwelt. And the Ammonites named them Zummim,
2:21a great and populous nation, and mightier than you, as also the Anakim; and the lord destroyed them before their face, and they inherited them; and they were settled there in place of them until this day,
2:22even as they did inherit the sons of Esau, the ones dwelling in Seir, in which manner he obliterated the Horite from their face; and they inherited them, and they were settled in place of them until this day.
2:23And the Hivites dwelling in Aseroth unto Gaza, and the Cappadocians coming forth from out of Cappadocia, obliterated them, and were settled in place of them.
2:24Now then, rise up and depart and go by the ravine of Arnon! Behold, I have delivered up into your hands Sihon king of Heshbon the Amorite and his land. Commence to inherit it! Join against him in war!
2:25On this day commence to give the trembling of you and the fear of you upon the face of all the nations of the ones underneath the heaven! Whoever hearing your name shall be disturbed, and shall have pangs of anguish before your face.
2:26And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with peaceable words, saying,
2:27I will go through your land; in the journey I will go -- I will not turn aside right nor left.
2:28You shall give to me foods for silver, and I shall eat; and you shall give water to me for silver, and I shall drink; only that I shall go by on the feet,
2:29as the sons of Esau dwelling in Seir did to me, and the Moabites, the ones dwelling in Ar, until whenever I should go by the Jordan into the land which the lord our God gives us.
2:30And Sihon king of Heshbon did not want us to go by through his land, for the lord our God hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, that he should be delivered up into your hands, as in this day.
2:31And the lord said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up before your face Sihon king of Heshbon the Amorite, and his land. Commence to inherit his land!
2:32And came forth Sihon king of Heshbon to meet us, he and all his people, for war at Jahaz.
2:33And the lord our God delivered him before our face, into our hands; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
2:34And we held all his cities in that time. And we utterly destroyed every city; next also their women, and their children we did not leave behind for taking alive.
2:35Except the cattle we despoiled for ourselves. And the spoils from the cities we took,
2:36from Aroer, which is by the bank of the rushing stream Arnon, and the city being in the ravine, and unto mount Gilead. There was not a city which evaded us; the lord our God delivered up all into our hands.
2:37Except in the land of the sons of Ammon we did not draw near, all the parts falling in with the stream Jabbok, and the cities, the ones in the mountainous area, in so far as the lord our God gave charge to us.