6. Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died.
7. The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses prayed for the people.
8. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.”
9. So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived.
10. The Israelites moved on and camped at Oboth.
11. Then they set out from Oboth and camped in Iye Abarim, in the wilderness that faces Moab toward the sunrise.
12. From there they moved on and camped in the Zered Valley.
13. They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
14. That is why the Book of the Wars of the Lord says: “. . . Zahab in Suphah and the ravines, the Arnon
15. and the slopes of the ravines that lead to the settlement of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
16. From there they continued on to Beer, the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”
17. Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing about it,
18. about the well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people sank— the nobles with scepters and staffs.” Then they went from the wilderness to Mattanah,
19. from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20. and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
21. Israel sent messengers to say to Sihon king of the Amorites:
22. “Let us pass through your country. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will travel along the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
23. But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.
24. Israel, however, put him to the sword and took over his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, but only as far as the Ammonites, because their border was fortified.