8. "So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9. Then the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot as a possession.'
10. (The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.
11. Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as Rephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. The Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave to them.)
13. 'Now arise and cross over the brook Zered yourselves.' So we crossed over the brook Zered.
14. Now the time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war perished from within the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.
15. Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp until they all perished.
16. "So it came about when all the men of war had finally perished from among the people,
17. that the Lord spoke to me, saying,
18. 'Today you shall cross over Ar, the border of Moab.
19. When you come opposite the sons of Ammon, do not harass them nor provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as a possession, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as a possession.'
20. (It is also regarded as the land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim formerly lived in it, but the Ammonites call them Zamzummin,