Deuteronomy:2:1-23
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Then we turned ,
and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea ,
as the LORD told me ;
and for many days we went about Mount Se '
ir .
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Then the LORD said to me ,
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You have been going about this mountain country long enough ;
turn northward .
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And command the people ,
You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren the sons of Esau ,
who live in Se '
ir ;
and they will be afraid of you .
So take good heed ;
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do not contend with them ;
for I will not give you any of their land ,
no ,
not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on ,
because I have given Mount Se '
ir to Esau as a possession .
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You shall purchase food from them for money ,
that you may eat ;
and you shall also buy water of them for money ,
that you may drink .
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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands ;
he knows your going through this great wilderness ;
these forty years the LORD your God has been with you ;
you have lacked nothing .'
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So we went on ,
away from our brethren the sons of Esau who live in Se '
ir ,
away from the Arabah road from Elath and E '
zion-ge '
ber . "
And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab .
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And the LORD said to me , `
Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle ,
for I will not give you any of their land for a possession ,
because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession .'
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The Emim formerly lived there ,
a people great and many ,
and tall as the Anakim ;
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like the Anakim they are also known as Reph '
aim ,
but the Moabites call them Emim .
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The Horites also lived in Se '
ir formerly ,
but the sons of Esau dispossessed them ,
and destroyed them from before them ,
and settled in their stead ;
as Israel did to the land of their possession ,
which the LORD gave to them .)
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Now rise up ,
and go over the brook Zered .'
So we went over the brook Zered .
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And the time from our leaving Ka '
desh-bar '
nea until we crossed the brook Zered was thirty-eight years ,
until the entire generation ,
that is ,
the men of war ,
had perished from the camp ,
as the LORD had sworn to them .
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For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them ,
to destroy them from the camp ,
until they had perished .
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So when all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people ,
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the LORD said to me ,
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This day you are to pass over the boundary of Moab at Ar ;
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and when you approach the frontier of the sons of Ammon ,
do not harass them or contend with them ,
for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession ,
because I have given it to the sons of Lot for a possession .'
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That also is known as a land of Reph '
aim ;
Reph '
aim formerly lived there ,
but the Ammonites call them Zamzum '
mim ,
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a people great and many ,
and tall as the Anakim ;
but the LORD destroyed them before them ;
and they dispossessed them ,
and settled in their stead ;
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as he did for the sons of Esau ,
who live in Se '
ir ,
when he destroyed the Horites before them ,
and they dispossessed them ,
and settled in their stead even to this day .
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As for the Avvim ,
who lived in villages as far as Gaza ,
the Caph '
torim ,
who came from Caphtor ,
destroyed them and settled in their stead .)
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