rsv Deuteronomy:2:1-8
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:1 @ "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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:2 @ Then the LORD said to me,
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:3 @ `You have been going about this mountain country long enough; turn northward.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:4 @ 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;
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:5 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:6 @ 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.
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:7 @ 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.'
rsv@Deuteronomy:2:8 @ 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.