Deuteronomy 2
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
2 And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount Seir a long time.
2 And the Lord said to me:
3 You have compassed this mountain long enough: go toward the north:
4 And command thou the people, saying: You shall pass by the borders of your brethren the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you.
5 Take ye then good heed that you stir not against them. For I will not give you of their land so much as the step of one foot can tread upon, because I have given mount Seir to Esau, for a possession.
6 You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink.
7 The Lord thy God hath blessed thee in every work of thy hands: the Lord thy God dwelling with thee, knoweth thy journey, how thou hast passed through this great wilderness, for forty years, and thou hast wanted nothing.
8 And when we had passed by our brethren the children of Esau, that dwelt in Seir, by the way of the plain from Elath and from Asiongaber, we came to the way that leadeth to the desert of Moab.
9 And the Lord said to me: Fight not against the Moabites, neither go to battle against them: for I will not give thee any of their land, because I have given Ar to the children of Lot in possession.
10 The Emims first were the inhabitants thereof, a people great, and strong, and so tall, that like the race of the Enacims,
11 They were esteemed as giants, and were like the sons of the Enacims. But the Moabites call them Emims.
12 The Horrhites also formerly dwelt in Seir: who being driven out and destroyed, the children of Esau dwelt there, as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the Lord gave him.
13 Then rising up to pass the torrent Zared, we came to it.
14 And the time that we journeyed from Cadesbarne till we passed over the torrent Zared, was thirty-eight years: until all the generation of the men that were fit for war was consumed out of the camp, as the Lord had sworn:
15 For his hand was against them, that they should perish from the midst of the camp.
16 And after all the fighting men were dead,
17 The Lord spoke to me, saying:
18 Thou shalt pass this day the borders of Moab, the city named Ar:
19 And when thou comest nigh the frontiers of the children of Ammon, take heed thou fight not against them, nor once move to battle: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon, because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.
20 It was accounted a land of giants: and giants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites call Zomzommims,
21 A people great and many, and of tall stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord destroyed before their face: and he made them to dwell in their stead,
22 As he had done in favour of the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Horrhites, and delivering their land to them, which they possess to this day.
23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians: who came out of Cappadocia, and destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.
24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Behold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to possess his land and make war against him.
25 This day will I begin to send the dread and fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like women in travail.
26 So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:
27 We will pass through thy land, we will go along by the highway: we will not turn aside neither to the right hand nor to the left.
28 Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: give us water for money and so we will drink. We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through,
29 As the children of Esau have done, that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to the land which the Lord our God will give us.
30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hardened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.
31 And the Lord said to me: Behold I have begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land, begin to possess it.
32 And Sehon came out to meet us with all his people to fight at Jasa.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him to us: and we slew him with his sons and all his people.
34 And we took all his cities at that time, killing the inhabitants of them, men and women and children. We left nothing of them:
35 Except the cattle which came to the share of them that took them: and the spoils of the cities, which we took:
36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the torrent Amen, a town that is situate in a valley, as far as Galaad. There was not a village or city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:
37 Except the land of the children of Ammon, to which we approached not: and all that border upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the mountains, and all the places which the Lord our God forbade us.
Deuteronomio 2
La Nuova Diodati
2 «Poi tornammo indietro e partimmo per il deserto in direzione del Mar Rosso, come l'Eterno mi aveva detto, e girammo intorno al monte Seir per molto tempo. rif.
2 Quindi l'Eterno mi parlò dicendo:
3 "Avete girato abbastanza intorno a questo monte; volgetevi verso nord.
4 E ordina al popolo dicendo: Voi state per passare i confini dei figli di Esaù, vostri fratelli, che dimorano in Seir, essi avranno paura di voi; state quindi bene in guardia;
5 non provocateli, perché non vi darò niente del loro paese, neppure quanto ne può calcare la pianta di un piede, poiché ho dato il monte di Seir a Esaù, come sua proprietà.
6 Comprerete da loro con denaro le vettovaglie che mangerete e comprerete pure da loro con denaro l'acqua che berrete.
7 Poiché l'Eterno, il tuo DIO, ti ha benedetto in tutta l'opera delle tue mani; ha vegliato sul tuo viaggio attraverso questo grande deserto. L'Eterno, il tuo DIO, è stato con te durante questi quarant'anni e non ti è mancato nulla".
8 Così passammo oltre i figli di Esaù, nostri fratelli, che abitavano in Seir e, evitando la via dell'Arabah, come pure Elath ed Etsion-Gheber, ripiegammo e proseguimmo passando per il deserto di Moab.
9 L'Eterno quindi mi disse: "Non attaccare Moab e non gli muovere guerra, perché non ti darò alcuna parte del loro paese in eredità, poiché ho dato Ar ai discendenti di Lot, come loro proprietà.
10 (Nei tempi passati vi abitarono gli Emim, un popolo grande, numeroso e alto di statura come gli Anakim.
11 Erano anch'essi ritenuti giganti, come gli Anakim; ma i Moabiti li chiamavano Emim.
12 Seir era prima abitata dagli Horei; ma i discendenti di Esaù li cacciarono, li distrussero e si stabilirono al loro posto, come ha fatto Israele nel paese che possiede e che l'Eterno gli ha dato).
13 Ora levatevi e attraversate il torrente Zered". Così noi attraversammo il torrente Zered.
14 Ora il tempo impiegalo per giungere da Kadesh-Barnea fino al passaggio del torrente Zered, di trent'otto anni, finché tutta la generazione degli uomini di guerra scomparve interamente dall'accampamento, come l'Eterno aveva loro giurato.
15 Infatti la mano dell'Eterno fu contro di loro per sterminarli dall'accampamento, finché fossero annientati.
16 Così, quando l'ultimo uomo di guerra morì di mezzo al popolo,
17 l'Eterno mi parlò dicendo:
18 "Oggi tu stai per passare i confini di Moab, ad Ar,
19 ma avvicinandoti ai figli di Ammon, non li attaccare e non muovere loro guerra, perché io non ti darò alcuna parte del paese dei figli di Ammon in eredità, poiché l'ho dato ai figli di Lot, come loro proprietà".
20 (Anche questo era ritenuto un paese di giganti; nei tempi passati vi abitarono i giganti; ma gli Ammoniti li chiamavano Zamzummim,
21 un popolo grande, numeroso e alto di statura come gli Anakim; ma l'Eterno li distrusse davanti agli Ammoniti, che li scacciarono e si stabilirono al loro posto,
22 come l'Eterno aveva fatto per i discendenti di Esaù che abitavano in Seir, quando distrusse gli Horei davanti a loro. Essi li scacciarono e si stabilirono al loro posto fino al giorno d'oggi.
23 Anche gli Avvei, che dimoravano in villaggi fino a Gaza, furono distrutti dai Kaftorei, venuti da Kaftor, i quali si stabilirono al loro posto).
24 "Levatevi, mettetevi in cammino e attraversate il torrente Arnon; ecco, io do in tuo potere Sihon, l'Amoreo, re di Heshbon, e il suo paese; comincia a prendere possesso e muovigli guerra.
25 Oggi comincerò a infondere paura e terrore di te ai popoli sotto tutti i cieli, i quali sentiranno parlare di te, e tremeranno e saranno presi da angoscia a causa di te".
26 Allora mandai ambasciatori dal deserto di Kedemoth a Sihon, re di Heshbon, con parole di pace, per dirgli:
27 "Lasciami passare per il tuo paese; io camminerò per la via Regia, senza deviare né a destra né a sinistra.
28 Tu mi venderai per denaro le vettovaglie che mangerò e mi darai per denaro l'acqua che berrò; permettimi solo di passare a piedi
29 (come hanno fatto per me i discendenti di Esaù che abitano in Seir e i Moabiti che abitano in Ar), finché io abbia passato il Giordano per entrare nel paese che l'Eterno, il nostro Dio, ci dà".
30 Ma Sihon, re di Heshbon, non ci volle lasciar passare nel suo territorio, perché l'Eterno, il tuo Dio, gli aveva indurito lo spirito e reso ostinato il cuore, per darlo nelle tue mani, come è appunto oggi.
31 E l'Eterno mi disse: "Vedi, ho cominciato a dare in tuo potere Sihon e il suo paese; incomincia ad occuparlo, perché tu possa entrare in possesso del suo paese".
32 Allora Sihon uscì contro di noi con tutta la sua gente, per darci battaglia a Jahats.
33 Ma l'Eterno, il nostro DIO, ce lo diede nelle mani, e noi sconfiggemmo lui, i suoi figli e tutta la sua gente.
34 In quel tempo prendemmo tutte le sue città e votammo allo sterminio uomini, donne e bambini di ogni città; non lasciammo anima viva.
35 Soltanto prendemmo come nostro bottino il bestiame e le spoglie delle città che avevamo preso.
36 Da Aroer, che è sulle sponde del torrente Arnon e alla città che è nella valle, fino a Galaad, non ci fu alcuna città che fosse troppo forte per noi; l'Eterno, il nostro DIO, le diede tutte nelle nostre mani.
37 Ma non ti avvicinasti al paese dei figli di Ammon, ad alcun posto toccato dal torrente Jabbok, alle città del paese montuoso e a tutti i luoghi che l'Eterno, il nostro DIO, ci aveva proibito di attaccare».
Deuteronomy 2
King James Version
2 Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.
2 And the Lord spake unto me, saying,
3 Ye have compassed this mountain long enough: turn you northward.
4 And command thou the people, saying, Ye 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 ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:
5 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.
6 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
7 For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8 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.
9 And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
10 The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;
11 Which also were accounted giants, as the Anakims; but the Moabites called them Emims.
12 The Horims also dwelt in Seir beforetime; but the children of Esau succeeded them, when they had destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.
13 Now rise up, said I, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
14 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 sware unto them.
15 For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
16 So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17 That the Lord spake unto me, saying,
18 Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
19 And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.
20 (That also was accounted a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in old time; and the Ammonites call them Zamzummims;
21 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 stead:
22 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 stead even unto this day:
23 And the Avims which dwelt in Hazerim, even unto Azzah, the Caphtorims, which came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.)
24 Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.
26 And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.
28 Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;
29 (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 giveth us.
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.
31 And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land before thee: begin to possess, that thou mayest inherit his land.
32 Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.
33 And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34 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:
35 Only the cattle we took for a prey unto ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we took.
36 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:
37 Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest 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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