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1The Canaanite king of Arad, who was dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel came along the way of Atharim; he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.[#An arid region south of the Judean hills]
2Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, “If you will surely give this people into our hand, then we will destroy their cities.”[#Hebrew “my”; #Hebrew “I”; #Literally “devote to God”]
3Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave to them the Canaanites, and they destroyed them and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah.[#Literally “they devoted to God”]
4They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient along the way.[#Literally “sea of reed”; #Literally “the life of the people became short”]
5The people spoke against God and against Moses, “Why have you brought us from Egypt to die in the desert? There is no food and no water, and our hearts detest this miserable food.”
6And Yahweh sent among the people poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many people from Israel died.
7The people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and let him remove the snakes from among us.” So Moses prayed for the people.[#Hebrew “snake”]
8And Yahweh said to Moses, “Make for yourself a snake and place it on a pole. When anyone is bitten and looks at it, that person will live.”[#Hebrew “And it will happen”]
9So Moses made a snake of bronze, and he placed it on the pole; whenever a snake bit someone, and that person looked at the snake of bronze, he lived.[#Hebrew “And it will happen”]
10The Israelites set out and encamped at Oboth.[#Literally “sons/children of Israel”]
11They set out from Oboth and encamped at Iye Abarim in the desert, which was in front of Moab toward the sunrise.[#Literally “from the east of the sun”]
12From there they set out and encamped at the valley of Zered.
13From there they set out and encamped beyond Arnon, which is in the desert that goes out from the boundary of the Amorites, because Arnon is the boundary of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.[#Hebrew “Amorite”; #Hebrew “Amorite”]
14Therefore thus it is said in the scroll of the Wars of Yahweh,
“Waheb in Suphah,
15and the slope of the wadis
and lies at the boundary of Moab.”
16From there they went to Beer, which is the water well where Yahweh spoke to Moses, “Gather the people, that I may give them water.”
17Then Israel sang this song, “Arise, well water! Sing to it!
18Well water that the princes dug, that the leaders of the people dug, with a staff and with their rods.” And from the desert they continued to Mattanah,
19and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
20and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the territory of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which overlooks the surface of the wasteland.
21Israel sent messengers to Sihon, the king of the Amorites, saying,[#Hebrew “Amorite”]
22“Let us go through your land; we will not turn aside into a field or vineyard; we will not drink well water along the way of the king until we have gone through your territory.”
23But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel.
24But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the Ammonites, because the boundary of the Ammonites was strong.[#Literally “sons of Ammon”; #Literally “sons of Ammon”]
25Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its environs.[#Hebrew “Amorite”; #Hebrew “her daughters;” other modern versions translate “its villages”]
26Because Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land from his hand until Arnon.[#Hebrew “Amorite”]
27Thus the ones who quote proverbs say,
“Come to Heshbon! Let it be built!
28Because fire went out from Heshbon,
it consumed Ar of Moab,
29Woe to you, Moab!
He has given his sons as fugitives,
to the king of the Amorites, Sihon.
Heshbon has perished up to Dibon;
which reaches Medeba.”
31Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.[#Hebrew “Amorite”]
32Moses sent to explore Jaazer; they captured its environs and dispossessed the Amorites who were there.[#Hebrew “her daughters;” other modern versions translate “its villages”; #Hebrew “Amorite”]
33Then they turned and went up by the way of the Bashan, and Og king of the Bashan and all his people went out to meet them for battle at Edrei.
34And Yahweh said to Moses, “Do not fear him because I will give him and all his people and all his land into your hand. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon.”[#Hebrew “Amorite”]
35And so they destroyed him and his sons, and all his people until they had not spared a survivor; and they took possession of his land.