Numbers:21

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* And when king Arad the Chanaanite , who dwelt towards the south , had heard this , to wit , that Israel was come by the way of the spies , he fought against them , and overcoming them carried off their spoils . * But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord , said : It thou wilt deliver this people into my hand , I will utterly destroy their cities . * And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel , and delivered up the Chanaanite , and they cut them off and destroyed their cities : and they called the name of that place Horma , that is to say , Anathema . * And they marched from mount Hor , by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea , to compass the land of Edom . And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour : * And speaking against God end Moses , they said : Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt , to die in the wilderness ? There is no bread , nor have we any waters : our soul now loatheth this very light food . * Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents , which bit them and killed many of them . * Upon which they came to Moses , and said : We have sinned , because we have spoken against the Lord and thee : pray that he may take away these serpents from us . And Moses prayed for the people . * And the Lord said to him : Make brazen serpent , and set it up for a sign : whosoever being struck shall look on it , shall live . * Moses therefore made a brazen serpent , and set it up for a sign : which when they that were bitten looked upon , they were healed . * And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth . * And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim , in the wilderness , that faceth Moab toward the east . * And removing from thence , they came to the torrent Zared : * Which they left and encamped over against Arnon , which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite . For Arnon is the border of Moab , dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites . * Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord : As he did in the Red Sea , so will he do in the streams of Amen . * The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar , and lie down in the borders of the Moabites . * When they went from that place , the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses : Gather the people together , and I will give them water . * Then Israel sung this song : Let the well spring up . They sung thereto : * The well , which the princes dug , and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver , and with their staves . And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana . * From Mathana unto Nahaliel : from Nahaliel unto Bamoth . * From Bamoth , is a valley in the country of Moab , to the top of Phasga , which looked towards the desert . * And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites , saying : * I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land : we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards , we will not drink waters of the wells , we will go the king 's highway , till we be past thy borders . * And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders : but rather gathering an army , went forth to meet them in the desert , and came to Jasa , and fought against them . * And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword , and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc , and to the confines of the children of Ammon : for the borders of the Ammonites , were kept with a strong garrison . * So Israel took all his cities , and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite , to wit , in Hesebon , and in the villages thereof . * Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites , who fought against the king of Moab : and took all the land , that had been of his dominions , as far as the Arnon . * Therefore it is said in the proverb : Come into Hesebon , let the city of Sehon be built and set up : * A fire is gone out of Hesebon , a flame from the city of Sehon , and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites , and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon . * Woe to thee Moab : thou art undone , O people of Chamos . He hath given his sons to flight , and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites . * Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon , they came weary to Nophe , and unto Medaba . * So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite . * And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer : and they took the villages of it , and conquered the inhabitants . * And they turned themselves , and went up by the way of Basan , and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people , to fight in Edrai . * And the Lord said to Moses : Fear him not , for I have delivered him and all his people , and his country into thy hand : and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites , the inhabitant of Hesebon . * So they slew him also with his sons , and all his people , not letting any one escape , and they possessed his land .

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