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Deuteronomy 2

Wanderings in the Wilderness

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aThen we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the  1Red Sea, as the LORD spoke to me, and circled  bMount Seir for many days.

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"And the LORD spoke to me, saying,

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`You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north,

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 aand command the people, saying, "You will pass through the  bterritory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and  cthey will be afraid of you. So be very careful;

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do not  1provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a  2footstep  abecause I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

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"You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.

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"For the LORD your God has blessed you in all  1that you have done; He has known your  2wanderings through this  agreat wilderness. These  bforty years the LORD your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing."'

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"So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the  aArabah road, away from Elath and  bfrom Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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"Then the LORD said to me, `Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of  1their land as a possession, because I have given  aAr to  bthe sons of Lot as a possession.

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(The  aEmim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.

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Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as  aRephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

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 aThe Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place,  bjust as Israel did to the land of  1their possession which the LORD gave to them.)

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`Now arise and cross over the  1brook Zered yourselves.' So we crossed over the  1brook Zered.

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"Now the  1time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the  2brook Zered was  athirty-eight years, until  ball the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as  cthe LORD had sworn to them.

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aMoreover the hand of the LORD was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.

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"So it came about when  aall the men of war had finally perished from among the people,

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that the LORD spoke to me, saying,

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`Today you shall cross over  aAr, the border of Moab.

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`When you come opposite the  asons of Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to  bthe sons of Lot as a possession.'

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(It is also regarded as the land of the  aRephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,

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a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but the LORD destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,

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just as He did for the sons of Esau, who  alive in Seir, when He destroyed  bthe Horites from before them; they dispossessed them and settled in their place even to this day.

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And the  aAvvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the  1 bCaphtorim who came from  2 cCaphtor, destroyed them and lived in their place.)

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`Arise, set out, and pass through the  1 avalley of Arnon. Look! I have given Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land into your hand; begin to take possession and contend with him in battle.

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`This day I will begin to put  athe dread and fear of you  1upon the peoples  2everywhere under the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you,  bwill tremble and be in anguish because of you.'

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aSo I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

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`Let me pass through your land, I will  1travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

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`You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink,  aonly let me pass through on  1foot,

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just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in  aAr did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the LORD our God is giving to us.'

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"But  aSihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass  1through his land; for the  bLORD your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.

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"The LORD said to me, `See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land  1over to you. Begin to  2occupy, that you may possess his land.'

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"Then Sihon  1with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.

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aThe LORD our God delivered him  1over to us, and we  2 bdefeated him with his sons and all his people.

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"So we captured all his cities at that time and  1 autterly destroyed  2the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.

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"We took  aonly the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

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"From  aAroer which is on the edge of the  1valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the  1valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the LORD our God delivered all  2over to us.

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aOnly you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the  1river  bJabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the LORD our God had commanded us.



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