7. Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.
8. So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, leaving behind us the Arabah route, Elath, and Ezion-geber. Then we turned and passed on toward the wilderness of Moab.
9. And the Lord said to me, Do not show hostility to the Moabites or engage them in battle, for I will not give you possession of any of their land, since I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.
10. (Formerly the Emim lived there, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim;
11. like the Anakim they are considered Rephaim, though the Moabites call them Emim.
12. In Seir, however, the former inhabitants were the Horites; the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, clearing them out of the way and dwelling in their place, just as Israel has done in the land of its possession which the Lord gave it.)
13. Now get ready to cross the Wadi Zered.So we crossed the Wadi Zered.
14. Now thirty-eight years had elapsed between our departure from Kadesh-barnea and the crossing of the Wadi Zered; in the meantime the whole generation of soldiers had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn they should.
15. Indeed the Lord’s own hand was against them, to rout them from the camp completely.
16. When at length death had put an end to all the soldiers among the people,
17. the Lord said to me,
18. You are now about to leave Ar and the territory of Moab behind.
19. As you come opposite the Ammonites, do not show hostility or come in conflict with them, for I will not give you possession of any land of the Ammonites, since I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.