Deuteronomy 2 — BSB
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Wanderings in the Wilderness
2Verse 1Then we turned back and headed for the wilderness by way of the Red Sea,+as the LORD had instructed me, and for many days we wandered around Mount Seir.Verse 2At this time the LORD said to me,Verse 3“You have been wandering around this hill country long enough; turn to the northVerse 4and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.Verse 5Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a footprint, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his possession.Verse 6You are to pay them in silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’”Verse 7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.Verse 8So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.Verse 9Then the LORD said to me, “Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”Verse 10(The Emites used to live there, a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites.Verse 11Like the Anakites, they were also regarded as Rephaim, though the Moabites called them Emites.Verse 12The Horites used to live in Seir, but the descendants of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land that the LORD gave them as their possession.)Verse 13“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.”So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.Verse 14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.Verse 15Indeed, the LORD’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.Verse 16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died,Verse 17the LORD said to me,Verse 18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar.Verse 19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”Verse 20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.Verse 21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But the LORD destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,Verse 22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day.Verse 23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtor+and settled in their place.)