Chapter 2
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Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Reeds, just as the LORD had spoken to me. And we went around Mount Seir for many days.
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And the LORD said to me, saying:
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Enough for you—circle this mountain; turn northward.
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And the people commanded, saying, "You are crossing the boundary of your brothers, the sons of Esau who sit in Seir, and they will fear you, and you shall keep yourselves very much."
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Do not provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even the sole of a foot; I have given Mount Seir to Esau as his inheritance.
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You shall buy food from them with silver and eat it, and you shall also buy water from them with silver and drink it.
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For the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he knew your going through this great wilderness these forty years; the LORD your God was with you; you lacked nothing.
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And we passed by our brothers, the sons of Esau, who sit in Seir, from the way of the Arabah, from Elath and from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
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And the LORD said to me, "Do not press against Moab, and do not provoke warfare against them, for I will not give you any of his land as an inheritance, for I have given Ar as an inheritance to the sons of Lot."
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The Emim formerly dwelt in it, a people great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.
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The Rephaim were also considered giants, and they call the Emim them.
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And the Horites dwelt in Seir previously, and the sons of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession, which the LORD gave them.
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Now arise and cross for yourselves the Nahal Zared, and we will cross the Nahal Zared.
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And the days that we walked from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the brook Zered—thirty-eight years—until all the generation of the men of war had perished from the midst of the camp, just as the LORD swore to them.
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And the hand of the LORD was also upon them to rout them from the midst of the camp until they were finished.
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And it was, when all the men of war had finished dying from the midst of the people.
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And the LORD said to me:
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You are crossing today the boundary of Moab, even Ar.
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And you approach the territory of the sons of Ammon—do not harass them and do not provoke them, for I have not given you any of the land of the sons of Ammon as inheritance, for to the sons of Lot I have given it as inheritance.
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It is reckoned a land of Rephaim. Even Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the peoples call them Zamzummim.
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a great and numerous people, tall like the Anakim; and the LORD destroyed them from before them and dispossessed them, and they dwelt in their place
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just as he did for the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, who destroyed the Horites from before them; and they inherited their land, and they dwelt in their place until this day.
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And the Avvim, who were living in the settlements until Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and dwelt in their place.