9. And the Lord said to me, Do not trouble or assault Moab or contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession.
10. (The Emim dwelt there in times past, a people great and many, and tall as the Anakim.
11. These also are known as Rephaim [of giant stature], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. The Horites also formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their stead, as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them.)
13. Now rise up and go over the brook Zered. So we went over the brook Zered.
14. And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea until we had come over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until the whole generation of the men of war had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
15. Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them to exterminate them from the midst of the camp, until they were all gone.
16. So when all the men of war had died from among the people,