7. for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand. He hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years hath Jehovah thy God been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
8. And we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, by the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-geber, and we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9. And Jehovah said to me, Distress not the Moabites, neither engage with them in battle; for I will not give thee of their land a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given Ar as a possession.
10. (The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.
11. They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. And in Seir dwelt the Horites in times past; and the children 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 Jehovah gave to them.)
13. Now rise up, and pass over the torrent Zered. And we passed over the torrent Zered.
14. Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.
15. Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16. And it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed, having died off from among the people,
17. that Jehovah spoke to me, saying,
18. Thou art to pass this day over the border of Moab, which is Ar,
19. and come near over against the children of Ammon; thou shalt not distress them nor attack them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession.
20. (That also is reckoned a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in time past, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
21. a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim; and Jehovah destroyed them before them, and they dispossessed them, and dwelt in their stead;