Deuteronomy:2:1-23

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* Then we turned , and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea , as the LORD spake unto me : and we compassed mount Seir many days . * And the LORD spake 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 coast of your brethren the children of Esau , which dwell in Seir ; and they shall be afraid of you : take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore : * Meddle not with them ; for I will not give you of their land , no , not so much as a foot breadth ; because I have given mount Seir unto Esau for a possession . * Ye shall buy meat 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 works of thy hand : he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD thy God hath been with thee ; thou hast lacked nothing . * And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau , which dwelt in Seir , through the way of the plain from Elath , and from Eziongaber , we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab . * And the LORD said unto me , Distress not the Moabites , neither contend with them in battle : for I will not give thee of their land for a possession ; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession . * The Emims dwelt therein in times past , a people great , and many , and tall , as the Anakims ; * Which also were accounted giants , as the Anakims ; but the Moabites call them Emims . * The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime ; but the children of Esau succeeded them , when they had 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 , said I , and get you over the brook Zered . And we went over the brook Zered . * And the space in which we came from Kadeshbarnea , until we were come over the brook Zered , was thirty and eight years ; until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the host , as the LORD sware unto them . * For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them , to destroy them from among the host , 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 spake unto me , saying , * Thou art to pass over through Ar , the coast of Moab , this day : * And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon , distress them not , nor meddle with them : for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession ; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession . * (That also was accounted a land of giants : giants dwelt therein in old time ; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims ; * A people great , and many , and tall , as the Anakims ; but the LORD destroyed them before them ; and they succeeded them , and dwelt in their stead : * As he did to the children of Esau , which dwelt in Seir , when he destroyed the Horims from before them ; and they succeeded them , and dwelt in their stead even unto this day : * And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim , even unto Azzah , the Caphtorims , which came forth out of Caphtor , destroyed them , and dwelt in their stead .)

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