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          DASV: Deuteronomy 2    

1 Then we turned around and went back to the wilderness by the
way to the Red Sea, as the LORD told me. For many days we
skirted around Mount Seir.
2 Then the LORD spoke to me, saying,
3 'You have circled around this mountain long enough,
turn to the north.
4 Tell the people, "You are about to pass through the territory
of your relatives the descendants of Esau who live in Seir.
They will be afraid of you so be very careful.
5 Do not provoke them for I am not giving you any of their land,
not even enough to leave a footprint on; because I have
given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.
6 You may purchase food from them for money so that
you may eat, and you may also buy water from them for
money so that you may drink.
7 For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the
work of your hand. He knows your travels through this
great wilderness. For these forty years the LORD your
God has been with you, you have lacked nothing.'"
8 So we passed by our relatives the descendants of Esau,
who live in Seir. We turned away from the way of the
Arabah that comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber and
passed by the road of the wilderness of Moab.
9 Then the LORD said to me, 'Do not harass Moab,
or provoke them to war; for I am not giving you any
of their land for a possession because I have given Ar
to the descendants of Lot for a possession.
10 (The Emites used to live there. They were a people great,
numerous and tall as the Anakites.
11 Like the Anakites, these are also known as Rephaites,
but the Moabites call them Emites.
12 The Horites used to live in Seir before, but the
descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them,
and settled in their place just as Israel did to the
land that the LORD gave them to possess.)
13 Now get up and cross over the Zered Valley.'
So we crossed the Zered Valley.
14 Now the length of time we traveled from Kadesh-barnea
until we crossed over the Zered Valley was thirty-eight
years; until all the generation of soldiers had perished
from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
15 Indeed, the hand of the LORD was against them to
destroy them from the camp until they were all gone.

16 So it was when all the soldiers had perished from
among the people,
17 that the LORD spoke to me, saying,
18 'Today you are to cross over at Ar, the border of Moab.
19 When you approach the descendants of Ammon, do not
harass or provoke them because I am not giving you the
land of the descendants of Ammon for a possession
because I have given it to the descendants of Lot
for a possession.'
20 (That also is considered a land of Rephaites.
The Rephaites formerly lived there; but the Ammonites
call them Zamzummites.
21 They were a people great, numerous and tall as
the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them before
the Ammonites so they dispossessed them and settled
in their place.
22 He did exactly the same thing for the descendants of Esau,
who lived in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites before
them so they dispossessed them, and settled in their
place even to this day.
23 The Avvites who lived in villages in the region of Gaza,
the Caphtorites who came from Caphtor [Crete], destroyed
them and settled in their place.)
24 Get up, set out on your journey, and cross over the
Arnon gorge. Look, I have given into your hand Sihon
the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin to take
possession of it and engage him in battle.
25 This day will I begin to put the dread and the fear of
you into all the peoples that are under the whole heaven.
When they will hear the report about you they will tremble
and be in anguish because of you.'

26 Then I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth
to Sihon king of Heshbon with an offer of peace, saying,
27 'Let me pass through your land. I will travel only on
the road, I will not turn aside either to the right or
to the left.
28 You may sell us food for money, so we may eat; and give
us water for money, so we may drink. Just allow us to pass
through on foot,
29 just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir,
and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross
over the Jordan River into the land the LORD our God is
giving us.'
30 But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him,
for the LORD your God hardened his spirit, and made his
heart obstinate, so that he might deliver him to your hand,
as he has done now.

31 Then the LORD said to me, 'See, I have begun to deliver
Sihon and his land over to you. Begin to take possession
of his land.'
32 When Sihon came out against us, he and all his people,
to battle at Jahaz,
33 the LORD our God delivered him over to us and we struck
him down, along with his sons and all his people.
34 At that time we took all his towns, and absolutely
destroyed every town, including even the women and children.
We left no survivors.
35 We did take the livestock as plunder for ourselves,
along with the spoil of the towns we had captured.
36 From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Arnon gorge,
and from the town that is in the gorge, even to Gilead,
there was not a citadel too high for us. The LORD our
God gave them all to us.
37 But you did not approach the land of the descendants
of Ammon; to the banks of Jabbok Valley, or the towns
of the hill country, or anywhere the LORD our God had
forbidden us.

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