¹² Horites^(A) used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did^(B) in the land the Lord gave them as their possession.)

²² The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir,^(A) when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

Wanderings in the Wilderness

2 Then we turned back and set out toward the wilderness along the route to the Red Sea,^[a](A) as the Lord had directed me. For a long time we made our way around the hill country of Seir.^(B)

⁵ Do not provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, not even enough to put your foot on. I have given Esau the hill country of Seir as his own.^(A)

²² The Lord had done the same for the descendants of Esau, who lived in Seir,^(A) when he destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.

²¹ While he was living in the Desert of Paran,^(A) his mother got a wife for him^(B) from Egypt.

¹² Then the Israelites set out from the Desert of Sinai and traveled from place to place until the cloud came to rest in the Desert of Paran.^(A)