Deuteronomy 2 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ “Then we turned and set out into the wilderness, the way of the Sea of Reeds, as יהוה  spoke to me, and we went round Mount Sĕ

² “And יהוה  spoke to me, saying,

³ ‘You have gone around this mountain long enough, turn northward.

⁴ ‘And command the people, saying, “You are about to pass over into the border of your brothers, the descendants of Ě

⁵ “Do not strive with them, for I do not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Sĕ

⁶ “What food you buy from them with silver you shall eat. And also, what water you buy from them with silver you shall drink.

⁷ “For יהוה  your Elohim has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He has known your wandering through this great wilderness. These forty years יהוה  your Elohim has been with you, you have not lacked any matter.” ’

⁸ “And when we passed beyond our brothers, the descendants of Ě

⁹ “And יהוה  said to me, ‘Do not distress Mo’aḇ

¹⁰ (The Ě

¹¹ They were also reckoned as Repha’ites, like the Anaqim, but the Mo’aḇ

¹² And the Ḥ

¹³ “ ‘Now rise up, and pass over the wadi Zereḏ

¹⁴ “And the time we took to come from Qaḏ

¹⁵ “And also, the hand of יהוה  was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

¹⁶ “And it came to be, when all the men of battle had finally perished from among the people,

¹⁷ that יהוה  spoke to me, saying,

¹⁸ ‘This day you are to pass over at Ar, the boundary of Mo’aḇ

¹⁹ ‘And when you come near the children of Ammon, do not distress them nor stir yourself up against them, for I do not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.’

²⁰ (That was also reckoned as a land of Repha’ites. Repha’ites formerly dwelt there. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

²¹ a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anaqim. But יהוה  destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt in their place,

²² as He had done for the descendants of Ě

²³ And the Awwim who dwelt in villages as far as Azzah, the Kaphtorim who came from Kaphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place).

²⁴ ‘Arise, set out and pass over the wadi Arnon. See, I have given into your hand Siḥ

²⁵ ‘This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, shall tremble and shake because of you.’

²⁶ “Then I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Qeḏ

²⁷ ‘Let me pass over through your land on the highway. I shall go on the highway and turn neither to the right nor to the left.

²⁸ ‘What food you sell me for silver I shall eat, and what water you give me for silver I shall drink. Only let me pass over on foot,

²⁹ as the descendants of Ě

³⁰ “But Siḥ

³¹ “And יהוה  said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Siḥ

³² “And Siḥ

³³ and יהוה  our Elohim gave him over to us, so we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

³⁴ “And we took all his cities at that time, and we put the men, women, and little ones of every city under the ban, we left none remaining.

³⁵ “Only the livestock we took as plunder for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we captured.

³⁶ “From Aroʽ

³⁷ “Only you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon – anywhere along the wadi Yabboq, or to the cities of the mountains, or wherever יהוה  our Elohim had forbidden us.