8. So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
9. The Lord said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you any of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”
10. (The Emim lived there before, a great and numerous people, and tall as the Anakim.
11. These also are considered to be Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
12. The Horites also lived in Seir in the past, but the children of Esau succeeded them. They destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which the Lord gave to them.)
13. “Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.
14. The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the middle of the camp, as the Lord swore to them.
15. Moreover the Lord’s hand was against them, to destroy them from the middle of the camp, until they were consumed.
16. So, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from amongst the people,
17. the Lord spoke to me, saying,
18. “You are to pass over Ar, the border of Moab, today.
19. When you come near the border of the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”
20. (That also is considered a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived there in the past; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,
21. a great people, many, and tall, as the Anakim; but the Lord destroyed them from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;
22. as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:
23. and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)
24. “Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.