Deuteronomy:2:1-23

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* Then we turned , and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea , as the LORD spoke unto me ; and we compassed mount Seir many days . * And the LORD spoke unto me , saying : * 'Ye have compassed this mountain long enough ; turn you northward . * And command thou the people , saying : Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau , that dwell in Seir ; and they will be afraid of you ; take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore ; * contend not with them ; for I will not give you of their land , no , not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on ; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession . * Ye shall purchase food of them for money , that ye may eat ; and ye shall also buy water of them for money , that ye may drink . * For the LORD thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand ; He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness ; these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee ; thou hast lacked nothing .' * So we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau , that dwell in Seir , from the way of the Arabah , from Elath and from Ezion-geber . And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab . * And the LORD said unto me : 'Be not at enmity with Moab , neither contend with them in battle ; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession ; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession .-- * The Emim dwelt therein aforetime , a people great , and many , and tall , as the Anakim ; * these also are accounted Rephaim , as the Anakim ; but the Moabites call them Emim . * And in Seir dwelt the Horites aforetime , but the children of Esau succeeded them ; and they destroyed them from before them , and dwelt in their stead ; as Israel did unto the land of his possession , which the LORD gave unto them .-- * Now rise up , and get you over the brook Zered .' And we went over the brook Zered . * And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea , until we were come over the brook Zered , were thirty and eight years ; until all the generation , even the men of war , were consumed from the midst of the camp , as the LORD swore unto them . * Moreover the hand of the LORD was against them , to discomfit them from the midst of the camp , until they were consumed . * So it came to pass , when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people , * that the LORD spoke unto me saying : * 'Thou art this day to pass over the border of Moab , even Ar ; * and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon , harass them not , nor contend with them ; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession ; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession .-- * That also is accounted a land of Rephaim : Rephaim dwelt therein aforetime ; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim , * a people great , and many , and tall , as the Anakim ; but the LORD destroyed them before them ; and they succeeded them , and dwelt in their stead ; * as He did for the children of Esau , that dwell in Seir , when He destroyed the Horites from before them ; and they succeeded them , and dwelt in their stead even unto this day ; * and the Avvim , that dwelt in villages as far as Gaza , the Caphtorim , that came forth out of Caphtor , destroyed them , and dwelt in their stead .--

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