Numbers 32:20 - Deuteronomy 3:12

English Standard Version

²⁰ So ^(A)Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the Lord for the war, ²¹ and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has ^(B)driven out his enemies from before him ²² and the land is subdued before the Lord; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and ^(C)this land shall be your possession before the Lord. ²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord, and ^(D)be sure your sin will find you out. ^24 (E)Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.” ²⁵ And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. ^26 (F)Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead, ^27 (G)but your servants will pass over, every man who is ^(H)armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders.”

²⁸ So ^(I)Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to ^(J)Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. ²⁹ And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. ³⁰ However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” ³¹ And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the Lord has said to your servants, we will do. ³² We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”

³³ And ^(K)Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. ³⁴ And the people of Gad built ^(L)Dibon, ^(M)Ataroth, ^(N)Aroer, ³⁵ Atroth-shophan, ^(O)Jazer, Jogbehah, ^36 (P)Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, ^(Q)fortified cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the people of Reuben built ^(R)Heshbon, ^(S)Elealeh, Kiriathaim, ^38 (T)Nebo, and ^(U)Baal-meon (^(V)their names were changed), and ^(W)Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. ³⁹ And the sons of ^(X)Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. ⁴⁰ And Moses ^(Y)gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. ⁴¹ And ^(Z)Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.^{[a] 42} And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

Recounting Israel's Journey

33 These are the stages of the people of Israel, when they went out of the land of Egypt by their companies under the leadership of Moses and Aaron. ² Moses wrote down their starting places, ^(AA)stage by stage, by command of the Lord, and these are their stages according to their starting places. ³ They ^(AB)set out from Rameses in ^(AC)the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover, the people of Israel went out ^(AD)triumphantly in the sight of all the Egyptians, ⁴ while the Egyptians were burying all their firstborn, ^(AE)whom the Lord had struck down among them. ^(AF)On their gods also the Lord executed judgments.

⁵ So the people of Israel set out from Rameses and camped at ^(AG)Succoth. ⁶ And they set out from Succoth and camped at ^(AH)Etham, which is on the edge of the wilderness. ⁷ And they set out from Etham and turned back to ^(AI)Pi-hahiroth, which is east of Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol. ⁸ And they set out from before Hahiroth^[b] and ^(AJ)passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness, and they ^(AK)went a three days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah. ⁹ And they set out from Marah and came to ^(AL)Elim; at Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees, and they camped there. ¹⁰ And they set out from Elim and camped by the Red Sea. ¹¹ And they set out from the Red Sea and camped in ^(AM)the wilderness of Sin. ¹² And they set out from the wilderness of Sin and camped at Dophkah. ¹³ And they set out from Dophkah and camped at Alush. ¹⁴ And they set out from Alush and camped at ^(AN)Rephidim, where there was no water for the people to drink. ¹⁵ And they set out from Rephidim and camped in the ^(AO)wilderness of Sinai. ¹⁶ And they set out from the wilderness of Sinai and camped at ^(AP)Kibroth-hattaavah. ¹⁷ And they set out from Kibroth-hattaavah and camped at ^(AQ)Hazeroth. ¹⁸ And they ^(AR)set out from Hazeroth and camped at Rithmah. ¹⁹ And they set out from Rithmah and camped at Rimmon-perez. ²⁰ And they set out from Rimmon-perez and camped at Libnah. ²¹ And they set out from Libnah and camped at Rissah. ²² And they set out from Rissah and camped at Kehelathah. ²³ And they set out from Kehelathah and camped at Mount Shepher. ²⁴ And they set out from Mount Shepher and camped at Haradah. ²⁵ And they set out from Haradah and camped at Makheloth. ²⁶ And they set out from Makheloth and camped at Tahath. ²⁷ And they set out from Tahath and camped at Terah. ²⁸ And they set out from Terah and camped at Mithkah. ²⁹ And they set out from Mithkah and camped at Hashmonah. ³⁰ And they set out from Hashmonah and camped at Moseroth. ³¹ And they set out from Moseroth and camped at ^(AS)Bene-jaakan. ³² And they set out from Bene-jaakan and camped at ^(AT)Hor-haggidgad. ³³ And they set out from Hor-haggidgad and camped at ^(AU)Jotbathah. ³⁴ And they set out from Jotbathah and camped at Abronah. ³⁵ And they set out from Abronah and camped at ^(AV)Ezion-geber. ³⁶ And they set out from Ezion-geber and camped in the ^(AW)wilderness of Zin (that is, Kadesh). ³⁷ And they set out from ^(AX)Kadesh and camped at ^(AY)Mount Hor, on the edge of the land of Edom.

³⁸ And Aaron the priest went up ^(AZ)Mount Hor at the command of the Lord and died there, in the fortieth year after the people of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, on the first day of the fifth month. ³⁹ And Aaron was ^(BA)123 years old when he died on Mount Hor.

⁴⁰ And ^(BB)the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the Negeb in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the people of Israel.

⁴¹ And they set out from Mount Hor and camped at Zalmonah. ⁴² And they set out from Zalmonah and camped at Punon. ⁴³ And they set out from Punon and camped at ^(BC)Oboth. ⁴⁴ And they set out from Oboth and camped at ^(BD)Iye-abarim, in the territory of Moab. ⁴⁵ And they set out from Iyim and camped at ^(BE)Dibon-gad. ⁴⁶ And they set out from Dibon-gad and camped at Almon-diblathaim. ⁴⁷ And they set out from Almon-diblathaim ^(BF)and camped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo. ⁴⁸ And they set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped in ^(BG)the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho; ⁴⁹ they camped by the Jordan from Beth-jeshimoth as far as ^(BH)Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.

Drive Out the Inhabitants

⁵⁰ And the Lord spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ⁵¹ “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(BI)When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ⁵² then ^(BJ)you shall drive out ^(BK)all the inhabitants of the land from before you and destroy all their ^(BL)figured stones and destroy all their metal images and demolish all their high places. ⁵³ And you shall take possession of the land and settle in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it. ^54 (BM)You shall inherit the land by lot according to your clans. ^(BN)To a large tribe you shall give a large inheritance, and to a small tribe you shall give a small inheritance. Wherever the lot falls for anyone, that shall be his. According to the tribes of your fathers you shall inherit. ⁵⁵ But if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those of them whom you let remain shall be as ^(BO)barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides, and they shall trouble you in the land where you dwell. ⁵⁶ And I will do to you ^(BP)as I thought to do to them.”

Boundaries of the Land

34 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ² “Command the people of Israel, and say to them, When you enter ^(BQ)the land of Canaan ^(BR)(this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan as defined by its borders), ^3 (BS)your south side shall be from the wilderness of Zin alongside Edom, and your southern border shall run from the end of ^(BT)the Salt Sea on the east. ⁴ And your border shall turn south of ^(BU)the ascent of Akrabbim, and cross to Zin, and its limit shall be south of Kadesh-barnea. Then it shall go on to ^(BV)Hazar-addar, and pass along to Azmon. ⁵ And the border shall turn ^(BW)from Azmon to ^(BX)the Brook of Egypt, and its limit shall be at the sea.

⁶ “For the western border, you shall have the Great Sea and its^[c] coast. This shall be your western border.

⁷ “This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to ^(BY)Mount Hor. ⁸ From Mount Hor you shall draw a line ^(BZ)to Lebo-hamath, and the limit of the border shall be at ^(CA)Zedad. ⁹ Then the border shall extend to Ziphron, and its limit shall be at ^(CB)Hazar-enan. This shall be your northern border.

¹⁰ “You shall draw a line for your eastern border from Hazar-enan to Shepham. ¹¹ And the border shall go down from Shepham to ^(CC)Riblah on the east side of Ain. And the border shall go down and reach to the shoulder of ^(CD)the Sea of Chinnereth on the east. ¹² And the border shall go down to the Jordan, and its limit shall be at ^(CE)the Salt Sea. This shall be your land as defined by its borders all around.”

¹³ Moses commanded the people of Israel, saying, ^(CF)“This is the land that you shall inherit by lot, which the Lord has commanded to give to the nine tribes and to the half-tribe. ^14 (CG)For the tribe of the people of Reuben by fathers' houses and the tribe of the people of Gad by their fathers' houses have received their inheritance, and also the half-tribe of Manasseh. ¹⁵ The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

List of Tribal Chiefs

¹⁶ The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ “These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: ^(CH)Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun. ¹⁸ You shall take one ^(CI)chief from every tribe to divide the land for inheritance. ¹⁹ These are the names of the men: Of the tribe of Judah, Caleb the son of Jephunneh. ²⁰ Of the tribe of the people of Simeon, Shemuel the son of Ammihud. ²¹ Of the tribe of Benjamin, Elidad the son of Chislon. ²² Of the tribe of the people of Dan a chief, Bukki the son of Jogli. ²³ Of the people of Joseph: of the tribe of the people of Manasseh a chief, Hanniel the son of Ephod. ²⁴ And of the tribe of the people of Ephraim a chief, Kemuel the son of Shiphtan. ²⁵ Of the tribe of the people of Zebulun a chief, Elizaphan the son of Parnach. ²⁶ Of the tribe of the people of Issachar a chief, Paltiel the son of Azzan. ²⁷ And of the tribe of the people of Asher a chief, Ahihud the son of Shelomi. ²⁸ Of the tribe of the people of Naphtali a chief, Pedahel the son of Ammihud.” ²⁹ These are the men whom the Lord commanded to divide the inheritance for the people of Israel in the land of Canaan.

Cities for the Levites

35 The Lord spoke to Moses in ^(CJ)the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying, ^2 (CK)“Command the people of Israel to give to the Levites some of the inheritance of their possession as cities for them to dwell in. And you shall give to the Levites pasturelands around the cities. ³ The cities shall be theirs to dwell in, and their pasturelands shall be for their cattle and for their livestock and for all their beasts. ⁴ The pasturelands of the cities, which you shall give to the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city outward a thousand cubits^[d] all around. ⁵ And you shall measure, outside the city, on the east side two thousand cubits, and on the south side two thousand cubits, and on the west side two thousand cubits, and on the north side two thousand cubits, the city being in the middle. This shall belong to them as pastureland for their cities.

⁶ “The cities that you give to the Levites shall be ^(CL)the six cities of refuge, where you shall permit the manslayer to flee, and in addition to them you shall give forty-two cities. ⁷ All the cities that you give to the Levites shall be ^(CM)forty-eight, with their pasturelands. ⁸ And as for the cities that you shall give ^(CN)from the possession of the people of Israel, ^(CO)from the larger tribes you shall take many, and from the smaller tribes you shall take few; each, in proportion to the inheritance that it inherits, shall give of its cities to the Levites.”

Cities of Refuge

⁹ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁰ “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, ^(CP)When you cross the Jordan into the land of Canaan, ^11 (CQ)then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there. ¹² The cities shall be for you a refuge from the avenger, that the manslayer may not die until he stands before the congregation for judgment. ¹³ And the cities that you give shall be your ^(CR)six cities of refuge. ^14 (CS)You shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities in the land of Canaan, to be cities of refuge. ¹⁵ These six cities shall be for refuge for the people of Israel, and ^(CT)for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, that anyone who kills any person without intent may flee there.

^16 (CU)“But if he struck him down with an iron object, so that he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. ¹⁷ And if he struck him down with a stone tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. ¹⁸ Or if he struck him down with a wooden tool that could cause death, and he died, he is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to death. ^19 (CV)The avenger of blood shall himself put the murderer to death; when he meets him, he shall put him to death. ²⁰ And if he pushed him out of hatred or hurled something at him, ^(CW)lying in wait, so that he died, ²¹ or in enmity struck him down with his hand, so that he died, then he who struck the blow shall be put to death. He is a murderer. ^(CX)The avenger of blood shall put the murderer to death when he meets him.

²² “But if he pushed him suddenly without enmity, or hurled anything on him ^(CY)without lying in wait ²³ or used a stone that could cause death, and without seeing him dropped it on him, so that he died, though he was not his enemy and did not seek his harm, ²⁴ then ^(CZ)the congregation shall judge between the manslayer and ^(DA)the avenger of blood, in accordance with these rules. ²⁵ And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it ^(DB)until the death of the high priest ^(DC)who was anointed with the holy oil. ²⁶ But if the manslayer shall at any time go beyond the boundaries of his city of refuge to which he fled, ²⁷ and ^(DD)the avenger of blood finds him outside the boundaries of his city of refuge, and the avenger of blood kills the manslayer, he shall not be guilty of blood. ²⁸ For he must remain in his city of refuge ^(DE)until the death of the high priest, but after the death of the high priest the manslayer may return to the land of his possession. ²⁹ And these things shall be for ^(DF)a statute and rule for you throughout your generations in all your dwelling places.

³⁰ “If anyone kills a person, the murderer shall be put to death on the ^(DG)evidence of witnesses. But no person shall be put to death on the testimony of one witness. ³¹ Moreover, you shall accept no ransom for the life of a murderer, who is guilty of death, but he shall be put to death. ³² And you shall accept no ransom for him who has fled to his city of refuge, that he may return to dwell in the land before the death of the high priest. ³³ You shall not ^(DH)pollute the land in which you live, for blood ^(DI)pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land for the blood that is shed in it, except ^(DJ)by the blood of the one who shed it. ^34 (DK)You shall not defile the land in which you live, in the midst of which I dwell, ^(DL)for I the Lord dwell in the midst of the people of Israel.”

Marriage of Female Heirs

36 The heads of the fathers' houses of the clan of the ^(DM)people of Gilead the son of Machir, son of Manasseh, from the clans of the people of Joseph, came near and spoke before Moses and before the chiefs, the heads of the fathers' houses of the people of Israel. ² They said, ^(DN)“The Lord commanded my lord to give the land for inheritance by lot to the people of Israel, and ^(DO)my lord was commanded by the Lord to give the inheritance of Zelophehad our brother to his daughters. ³ But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance. ⁴ And when ^(DP)the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”

⁵ And Moses commanded the people of Israel according to the word of the Lord, saying, “The tribe of the people of Joseph ^(DQ)is right. ⁶ This is what the Lord commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad: ‘Let them marry whom they think best, ^(DR)only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father. ⁷ The inheritance of the people of Israel shall not be transferred from one tribe to another, for every one of the people of Israel ^(DS)shall hold on to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers. ⁸ And ^(DT)every daughter who possesses an inheritance in any tribe of the people of Israel shall be wife to one of the clan of the tribe of her father, so that every one of the people of Israel may possess the inheritance of his fathers. ⁹ So no inheritance shall be transferred from one tribe to another, for each of the tribes of the people of Israel shall hold on to its own inheritance.’”

¹⁰ The daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord commanded Moses, ^11 (DU)for Mahlah, Tirzah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married to sons of their father's brothers. ¹² They were married into the clans of the people of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of their father's clan.

¹³ These are the commandments and the rules that the Lord commanded through Moses to the people of Israel ^(DV)in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

The Command to Leave Horeb

1 These are the words that Moses spoke to all Israel beyond the Jordan in the wilderness, in ^(DW)the Arabah opposite ^(DX)Suph, between ^(DY)Paran and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab. ² It is eleven days' journey from Horeb by the way of Mount Seir to ^(DZ)Kadesh-barnea. ^3 (EA)In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses spoke to the people of Israel according to all that the Lord had given him in commandment to them, ⁴ after ^(EB)he had defeated Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ^(EC)Og the king of Bashan, who lived in Ashtaroth and in ^(ED)Edrei. ⁵ Beyond the Jordan, ^(EE)in the land of Moab, Moses undertook to explain this law, saying, ⁶ “The Lord our God said to us in Horeb, ^(EF)‘You have stayed long enough at this mountain. ⁷ Turn and take your journey, and go to ^(EG)the hill country of the Amorites and to all their neighbors in ^(EH)the Arabah, ^(EI)in the hill country and in the lowland and in the Negeb and ^(EJ)by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates. ⁸ See, I have set the land before you. Go in and take possession of the land that the Lord swore to your fathers, ^(EK)to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to them and to their offspring after them.’

Leaders Appointed

⁹ “At that time ^(EL)I said to you, ‘I am not able to bear you by myself. ¹⁰ The Lord your God has multiplied you, and behold, ^(EM)you are today as numerous as the stars of heaven. ^11 (EN)May the Lord, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are and bless you, ^(EO)as he has promised you! ^12 (EP)How can I bear by myself the weight and burden of you and your strife? ^13 (EQ)Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.’ ¹⁴ And you answered me, ‘The thing that you have spoken is good for us to do.’ ¹⁵ So I took the heads of your tribes, wise and experienced men, ^(ER)and set them as heads over you, commanders of thousands, commanders of hundreds, commanders of fifties, commanders of tens, and officers, throughout your tribes. ¹⁶ And I charged your judges at that time, ‘Hear the cases between your brothers, and ^(ES)judge righteously between a man and his brother or the alien who is with him. ^17 (ET)You shall not be partial in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great alike. You shall not be intimidated by anyone, for ^(EU)the judgment is God's. And the case that is too hard for you, you shall ^(EV)bring to me, and I will hear it.’ ¹⁸ And I commanded you at that time all the things that you should do.

Israel's Refusal to Enter the Land

¹⁹ “Then we set out from Horeb and ^(EW)went through all that great and terrifying wilderness that you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us. And ^(EX)we came to Kadesh-barnea. ²⁰ And I said to you, ‘You have come to the hill country of the Amorites, which the Lord our God is giving us. ²¹ See, the Lord your God has set the land before you. Go up, take possession, as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has told you. ^(EY)Do not fear or be dismayed.’ ²² Then all of you came near me and said, ‘Let us send men before us, that they may explore the land for us and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up and the cities into which we shall come.’ ²³ The thing seemed good to me, and ^(EZ)I took twelve men from you, one man from each tribe. ²⁴ And ^(FA)they turned and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied it out. ²⁵ And they took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and brought us word again and said, ‘It is a good land that the Lord our God is giving us.’

²⁶ “Yet you would not go up, but rebelled against the command of the Lord your God. ²⁷ And ^(FB)you murmured in your tents and said, ‘Because the Lord ^(FC)hated us he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, ^(FD)to give us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us. ²⁸ Where are we going up? ^(FE)Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, ^(FF)“The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to heaven. And besides, we have seen ^(FG)the sons of the Anakim there.”’ ²⁹ Then I said to you, ‘Do not be in dread or afraid of them. ³⁰ The Lord your God who goes before you ^(FH)will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, ³¹ and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God ^(FI)carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.’ ³² Yet in spite of this word ^(FJ)you did not believe the Lord your God, ^33 (FK)who went before you in the way ^(FL)to seek you out a place to pitch your tents, in fire by night and in the cloud by day, to show you by what way you should go.

The Penalty for Israel's Rebellion

³⁴ “And the Lord heard your words and was angered, and he swore, ^35 (FM)‘Not one of these men of this evil generation shall see the good land that I swore to give to your fathers, ^36 (FN)except Caleb the son of Jephunneh. He shall see it, and to him and to his children I will give the land on which he has trodden, because he has wholly followed the Lord!’ ³⁷ Even with me ^(FO)the Lord was angry on your account and said, ‘You also shall not go in there. ^38 (FP)Joshua the son of Nun, ^(FQ)who stands before you, he shall enter. ^(FR)Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it. ³⁹ And as for ^(FS)your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today ^(FT)have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it. ⁴⁰ But as for you, ^(FU)turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea.’

⁴¹ “Then you answered me, ^(FV)‘We have sinned against the Lord. We ourselves will go up and fight, just as the Lord our God commanded us.’ And every one of you fastened on his weapons of war and thought it easy to go up into the hill country. ⁴² And the Lord said to me, ^(FW)‘Say to them, Do not go up or fight, ^(FX)for I am not in your midst, lest you be defeated before your enemies.’ ⁴³ So I spoke to you, and you would not listen; but you rebelled against the command of the Lord and ^(FY)presumptuously went up into the hill country. ^44 (FZ)Then the Amorites who lived in that hill country came out against you and chased you ^(GA)as bees do and beat you down in Seir as far as ^(GB)Hormah. ⁴⁵ And you returned and wept before the Lord, but the Lord did not listen to your voice or give ear to you. ⁴⁶ So ^(GC)you remained at Kadesh many days, the days that you remained there.

The Wilderness Years

2 “Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, ^(GD)as the Lord told me. And for many days we traveled around Mount Seir. ² Then the Lord said to me, ³ ‘You have been traveling around this mountain country ^(GE)long enough. Turn northward ⁴ and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of ^(GF)your brothers, the people of Esau, ^(GG)who live in Seir; and ^(GH)they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. ⁵ Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because ^(GI)I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ^6 (GJ)You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. ⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. ^(GK)He knows your going through this great wilderness. ^(GL)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’ ⁸ So ^(GM)we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from ^(GN)the Arabah road from ^(GO)Elath and ^(GP)Ezion-geber.

“And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab. ⁹ And the Lord said to me, ^(GQ)‘Do not harass Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given ^(GR)Ar to ^(GS)the people of Lot for a possession.’ ¹⁰ (^(GT)The Emim formerly lived there, ^(GU)a people great and many, and tall ^(GV)as the Anakim. ¹¹ Like the Anakim they are also counted as ^(GW)Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. ^12 (GX)The Horites also lived in Seir formerly, but the people of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, ^(GY)as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the Lord gave to them.) ¹³ ‘Now rise up and go over ^(GZ)the brook Zered.’ So we went over ^(HA)the brook Zered. ¹⁴ And the time from our leaving ^(HB)Kadesh-barnea until we crossed ^(HC)the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, ^(HD)until the entire generation, that is, the men of war, had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them. ¹⁵ For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the camp, until they had perished.

¹⁶ “So as soon as all the men of war had perished and were dead from among the people, ¹⁷ the Lord said to me, ¹⁸ ‘Today you are to cross the border of Moab at Ar. ¹⁹ And when you approach the territory of the people of Ammon, ^(HE)do not harass them or contend with them, for I will not give you any of the land of the people of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to ^(HF)the sons of Lot for a possession.’ ²⁰ (It is also counted as a land of ^(HG)Rephaim. Rephaim formerly lived there—but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim— ^21 (HH)a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them before the Ammonites,^[e] and they dispossessed them and settled in their place, ²² as he did for the people of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed ^(HI)the Horites before them and they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day. ²³ As for ^(HJ)the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as ^(HK)Gaza, ^(HL)the Caphtorim, who came from Caphtor, destroyed them and settled in their place.) ²⁴ ‘Rise up, set out on your journey and ^(HM)go over the Valley of the Arnon. Behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of ^(HN)Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take possession, and ^(HO)contend with him in battle. ²⁵ This day I will begin to put ^(HP)the dread and fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of you and shall tremble and be in anguish because of you.’

The Defeat of King Sihon

²⁶ “So I sent messengers from the wilderness of ^(HQ)Kedemoth to Sihon the king of ^(HR)Heshbon, ^(HS)with words of peace, saying, ^27 (HT)‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left. ^28 (HU)You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat, and give me water for money, that I may drink. Only let me pass through on foot, ^29 (HV)as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’ ³⁰ But ^(HW)Sihon the king of ^(HX)Heshbon would not let us pass by him, for the Lord your God ^(HY)hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, that he might give him into your hand, as he is this day. ³¹ And the Lord said to me, ‘Behold, I have begun to give Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession, that you may occupy his land.’ ³² Then ^(HZ)Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz. ³³ And ^(IA)the Lord our God gave him over to us, and ^(IB)we defeated him and his sons and all his people. ³⁴ And we captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction^[f] every ^(IC)city, men, women, and children. We left no survivors. ³⁵ Only the livestock we took as spoil for ourselves, with the plunder of the cities that we captured. ^36 (ID)From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and from ^(IE)the city that is in the valley, as far as Gilead, there was not a city too high for us. ^(IF)The Lord our God gave all into our hands. ³⁷ Only to the land of the sons of Ammon you did not draw near, that is, to all the banks of the river ^(IG)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, whatever the Lord our God had forbidden us.

The Defeat of King Og

3 “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan. And ^(IH)Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at ^(II)Edrei. ² But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not fear him, for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hand. And you shall do to him as you did to ^(IJ)Sihon the king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.’ ³ So the Lord our God gave into our hand Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people, ^(IK)and we struck him down until he had no survivor left. ⁴ And we took all his cities at that time—there was not a city that we did not take from them—sixty cities, ^(IL)the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ⁵ All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled villages. ⁶ And ^(IM)we devoted them to destruction,^[g] as we did to Sihon the king of Heshbon, devoting to destruction every ^(IN)city, men, women, and children. ⁷ But all the livestock and the spoil of the cities we took as our plunder. ⁸ 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 ⁹ (the Sidonians call ^(IO)Hermon ^(IP)Sirion, while the Amorites call it ^(IQ)Senir), ¹⁰ all the cities of the ^(IR)tableland and all Gilead and all Bashan, as far as ^(IS)Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. ¹¹ (For ^(IT)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of ^(IU)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in ^(IV)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits^[h] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the ^(IW)common cubit.^[i])

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