17. Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:
18. The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.
19. From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.
20. From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.
21. And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:
22. I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be past thy borders.
23. And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa, and fought against them.