Deuteronomy:2

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* Then we turned , and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea , as the LORD spoke unto me : and we compassed mount Seir many days . * And the LORD spoke unto me , saying , * All of you have compassed this mountain long enough : turn you northward . * And command you the people , saying , All of you 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 all of you 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 . * All of you shall buy food of them for money , that all of you may eat ; and all of you shall also buy water of them for money , that all of you may drink . * For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the works of your hand : he knows your walking through this great wilderness : these forty years the LORD your God has been with you ; you have 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 you 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 called them Emims . * The Horims also dwelt in Seir in time past ; but the children of Esau succeeded them , when they had destroyed them from before them , and dwelt in their position ; 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 swore 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 spoke unto me , saying , * You are to pass over through Ar , the coast of Moab , this day : * And when you come nigh opposite to the children of Ammon , distress them not , nor meddle with them : for I will not give you 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 position : * 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 position 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 position .) * Rise all of you up , take your journey , and pass over the river Arnon : behold , I have given into yours hand Sihon the Amorite , king of Heshbon , and his land : begin to possess it , and contend with him in battle . * This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the nations that are under the whole heaven , who shall hear report of you , and shall tremble , and be in anguish because of you . * And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace , saying , * Let me pass through your land : I will go along by the high way , I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left . * You shall sell me food for money , that I may eat ; and give me water for money , that I may drink : only I will pass through on my feet ; * (As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir , and the Moabites which dwell in Ar , did unto me ;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God gives us . * But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him : for the LORD your God hardened his spirit , and made his heart obstinate , that he might deliver him into your hand , as appears this day . * And the LORD said unto me , Behold , I have begun to give Sihon and his land before you : begin to possess , that you may inherit his land . * Then Sihon came out against us , he and all his people , to fight at Jahaz . * And the LORD our God delivered him before us ; and we stroke him , and his sons , and all his people . * And we took all his cities at that time , and utterly destroyed the men , and the women , and the little ones , of every city , we left none to remain : * Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves , and the spoil of the cities which we took . * From Aroer , which is by the brink of the river of Arnon , and from the city that is by the river , even unto Gilead , there was not one city too strong for us : the LORD our God delivered all unto us : * Only unto the land of the children of Ammon you came not , nor unto any place of the river Jabbok , nor unto the cities in the mountains , nor unto whatsoever the LORD our God forbad us .

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