9. And the Lord said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
10. (The Emim dwelt therein aforetime, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
11. these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. The Horites also dwelt in Seir aforetime, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did unto the land of his possession, which the Lord gave unto them.)
13. Now rise up, and get you over the brook Zered. And we went over the brook Zered.
14. And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the Lord sware unto them.
15. Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.
16. So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,
17. that the Lord spake unto me, saying,
18. Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab: