Like fleeing birds,
    like a scattered nest,
so are the daughters of Moab
    at (A)the fords of the Arnon.

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Like fluttering birds
    pushed from the nest,(A)
so are the women of Moab(B)
    at the fords(C) of the Arnon.(D)

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Like (A)a bird that strays from its nest
    is a man who strays from his home.

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Like a bird that flees its nest(A)
    is anyone who flees from home.

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18 “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and (A)went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and (B)arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and (C)camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

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18 “Next they traveled through the wilderness, skirted the lands of Edom(A) and Moab, passed along the eastern side(B) of the country of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon.(C) They did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was its border.

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20 Moab is put to shame, for it is broken;
    (A)wail and cry!
Tell it beside (B)the Arnon,
    that (C)Moab is laid waste.

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20 Moab is disgraced, for she is shattered.
    Wail(A) and cry out!
Announce by the Arnon(B)
    that Moab is destroyed.

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14 And like a hunted gazelle,
    or like sheep with none to gather them,
(A)each will turn to his own people,
    and each will flee to his own land.

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14 Like a hunted(A) gazelle,
    like sheep without a shepherd,(B)
they will all return to their own people,
    they will flee(C) to their native land.(D)

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16 So their territory was from Aroer, (A)which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by (B)Medeba;

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16 The territory from Aroer(A) on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the middle of the gorge, and the whole plateau past Medeba(B)

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12 “When we took possession of this land at that time, I gave to the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory beginning (A)at Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and half the hill country of Gilead with (B)its cities.

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Division of the Land

12 Of the land that we took over at that time, I gave the Reubenites and the Gadites the territory north of Aroer(A) by the Arnon Gorge, including half the hill country of Gilead, together with its towns.

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So we took the land at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, from the Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon

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So at that time we took from these two kings of the Amorites(A) the territory east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge as far as Mount Hermon.(B)

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36 (A)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from (B)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. (C)The Lord our God gave all into our hands.

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36 From Aroer(A) on the rim of the Arnon Gorge, and from the town in the gorge, even as far as Gilead,(B) not one town was too strong for us. The Lord our God gave(C) us all of them.

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13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the Amorites, for the (A)Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Wars of the Lord,

“Waheb in Suphah, and the valleys of the Arnon,
15 and the slope of the valleys
that extends to the seat of (B)Ar,
and leans to the border of Moab.”

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13 They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon(A), which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.(B) 14 That is why the Book of the Wars(C) of the Lord says:

“. . . Zahab[a] in Suphah and the ravines,
    the Arnon 15 and[b] the slopes of the ravines
that lead to the settlement of Ar(D)
    and lie along the border of Moab.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:14 Septuagint; Hebrew Waheb
  2. Numbers 21:15 Or “I have been given from Suphah and the ravines / of the Arnon 15 to