Deuteronomy 2:1-15
Wanderings in the Wilderness
2“aThen we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the 1Red Sea, as Yahweh spoke to me, and circled bMount Seir for many days. 2“And Yahweh spoke to me, saying, 3‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north, 4aand command the people, saying, “You are going to pass through the bterritory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and cthey will be afraid of you. So be very careful; 5do not 1provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a 2footstep abecause I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6“You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also bargain with them for water with money so that you may drink. 7“For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your 1wanderings through this agreat wilderness. These bforty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’
8“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the aArabah road, away from Elath and bfrom Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9“Then Yahweh said to me, ‘Do not harass Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of 1their land as a possession because I have given aAr to bthe sons of Lot as a possession.’ 10(The aEmim lived there formerly, a people as great, numerous, and tall as the Anakim. 11Like the Anakim, they are also regarded as aRephaim, but the Moabites call them Emim. 12aNow the Horites formerly lived in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, bjust as Israel would do to the land of 1their possession which Yahweh gave to them.) 13‘Now arise and cross over the 1brook Zered yourselves.’ So we crossed over the 2brook Zered. 14“Now the 1time that it took for us to come from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the 2brook Zered was athirty-eight years, until ball the generation of the men of war came to an end from within the camp, as cYahweh had sworn to them. 15“aMoreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to bring them into confusion from within the camp until they all came to an end.