Deuteronomy 2:1-15

Jubilee Bible 2000

2 ¶ Then we turned and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea, as the LORD had said unto me; and we went around Mount Seir many days

² until the LORD spoke unto me, saying,

³ Ye have gone around this mountain long enough; return unto the Aquilon.

⁴ And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you; take care unto yourselves, therefore;

⁵ do not seek a fight 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 an inheritance.

⁶ Ye shall buy food from them for money that ye may eat, and ye shall also buy water from them for money that ye may drink.

⁷ For the LORD thy God has blessed thee in all the works of thy hand; he knows thy walking through this great wilderness; these forty years the LORD thy God has been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

⁸ ¶ And when we passed by our brethren, the sons of Esau, who 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 sons of Lot for an inheritance.

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 call them Emims.

¹² The Horims also dwelt in Seir before time, but the sons of Esau inherited from them, and they destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead as Israel did in the land of his possession, which the LORD gave unto them.)

¹³ Now rise up, said I, and pass the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.

¹⁴ And the days in which we came from Kadeshbarnea until we were come over the brook Zered, was thirty-eight years until all the generation of the men of war were wasted out from among the camp, as the LORD swore unto them.

¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the camp until they were consumed.