Numbers 21 - The Scriptures 1998

¹ And the sovereign of Araḏ

² Then Yisra’ĕ

³ And יהוה  listened to the voice of Yisra’ĕ

⁴ And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Eḏ

⁵ And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”

⁶ And יהוה  sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕ

⁷ Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We have sinned, for we have spoken against יהוה  and against you. Pray to יהוה  to take away the serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.

⁸ And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.”

⁹ So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

¹⁰ And the children of Yisra’ĕ

¹¹ And they departed from Oḇ

¹² From there they set out and camped at the wadi Zereḏ

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 Arnon is the border of Mo’aḇ

¹⁴ Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of יהוה, “Wahĕ

¹⁵ and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Mo’aḇ

¹⁶ And from there on to Be’ĕ

¹⁷ Yisra’ĕ

¹⁸ a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug with their staves, by the word of the Law-giver.” Then from the wilderness on to Mattanah,

¹⁹ from Mattanah to Naḥ

²⁰ and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Mo’aḇ

²¹ And Yisra’ĕ

²² “Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn off into fields or vineyards, we shall not drink water from wells, but go by the sovereign’s highway until we have passed over your border.”

²³ But Siḥ

²⁴ And Yisra’ĕ

²⁵ And Yisra’ĕ

²⁶ for Ḥ

²⁷ That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Ḥ

²⁸ “For fire went out from Ḥ

²⁹ “Woe to you, Mo’aḇ

³⁰ “Then we shot them – Ḥ

³¹ So Yisra’ĕ

³² And Mosheh sent to spy out Yaʽ

³³ and turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Og sovereign of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Eḏ

³⁴ And יהוה  said to Mosheh, “Do not fear him, for I have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Siḥ

³⁵ And they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until no remnant was left to him. And they took possession of his land.