Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

You have circled this mountain long enough; turn northward,

And command the people, saying, You are about to pass through the territory of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take careful heed to yourselves therefore;

Do not engage them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even as much as a footstep; for I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.

You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also obtain water from them with money, that you may drink.

For Jehovah your God has blessed you in all your doings; He knows your journeying through this great wilderness. These forty years Jehovah your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.

So we passed on from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, away from the way of the Arabah, away from Elath and from Ezion-geber; and we turned and passed on by the way that leads to the wilderness of Moab.

And Jehovah said to me, Do not harass Moab, nor engage them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession; for to the children of Lot I have given Ar as a possession.

(The Emim dwelt there before that, a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim;

They were considered Rephaim, as were the Anakim, but the Moabites called them Emim.

The Horites also dwelt in Seir before that, but the children of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them; and they dwelt there in their place, as Israel did with the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.)

Now rise up and cross over the brook Zered. And we crossed over the brook Zered.

And the time that we spent in going from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the brook Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn to them.

Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to purge them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.

So when all the men of war were consumed from the midst of the people and dead,

Then Jehovah spoke to me, saying,

You are to pass through the territory of Moab, through Ar, today.

And when you come near to the children of Ammon, do not harass them, nor engage them, for I will not give any of the land of the children of Ammon to you as a possession; for I have given it to the children of Lot as a possession.

(It was also considered a land of Rephaim; Rephaim formerly dwelt in it. But the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

A people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakim. Yet Jehovah destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and dwelt there in their place;