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And we turned and pulled up stakes into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds, as Jehovah had spoken to me; and we went around the mountain of Seir many days.

And Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

You have gone around this mountain long enough; turn yourselves northward.

And command the people, saying, You are passing over into the border of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, and they shall be afraid of you. And you shall be on guard very much;

you shall not fight against them, for I will not give their land to you, even to a step of a sole of a foot, for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

You shall buy food from them with silver, and you shall eat; and you shall buy water from them with silver, and you shall drink.

For Jehovah your God has blessed you with all the work of your hands; He has known your walking through this great wilderness. Jehovah your God has been with you these forty years; you have lacked nothing.

And we passed on from our brothers, the sons of Esau, those living in Seir, by the way of the Arabah, by Elath, and by Ezion-geber, we turned and passed on by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

And Jehovah said to me, Do not besiege Moab, nor stir yourself up against them in battle, for I will not give their land to you for a possession. For I have given Ar as a possession to the sons of Lot.

The Emim lived there in days gone by, a great and plentiful people, and tall as the Anakim;

they are reckoned to be giants, they too, like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

And the Horites lived in Seir before; and the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place, as Israel has done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah has given to them.

Now, rise up and you yourselves pass over the torrent Zered; and we crossed over the torrent Zered.

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had crossed over the torrent Zered, were thirty eight years, until the end of all the generation, even the men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.

And the hand of Jehovah was also against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.