Verse 1
Deuteronomy 2:1
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Then we turned around and headed back into the desert on the road that leads to the Red Sea, as the Lord had told me, and we wandered around Mount Seir for a long time.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/נֵּ֜פֶן וַ/נִּסַּ֤ע הַ/מִּדְבָּ֨רָ/ה֙ דֶּ֣רֶךְ יַם ס֔וּף כַּ/אֲשֶׁ֛ר דִּבֶּ֥ר יְהוָ֖ה אֵלָ֑/י וַ/נָּ֥סָב אֶת הַר שֵׂעִ֖יר יָמִ֥ים רַבִּֽים
English Translation
And we turned and set out toward the wilderness along the way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we encircled the mountain of Seir for many days.
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Chapter 2 Context
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Then we turned around and headed back into the desert on the road that leads to the Red Sea, as the...
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This is when the Lord told me,
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“You have been wandering around this mountain long enough. Go back north,
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and give these orders to the people: You are going to pass through the territory of your relatives,...
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Don't fight them, for I'm not going to give you any of their land, not even the size of a footprint,...
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Pay them with money for the food you eat and the water you drink.”
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Remember that the Lord your God (Elohim) has blessed you in everything you've done. He has looked af...
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So we passed by our relatives, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We didn't take the Arabah...
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Then the Lord told me, “Don't cause the Moabites any trouble or fight them, for I'm not going to giv...
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(A strong and numerous people called the Emim once lived there. They were as tall as the Anakim,
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and just like the Anakim, they were also considered as Rephaim, but the Moabites called them Emim.
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Previously the Horites lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau took over their land. They killed...
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Then the Lord told us, “Go and cross over Zered Brook.” So we crossed over Zered Brook.
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The time it took for us to travel from Kadesh-barnea to when we crossed over the Brook of Zered was...
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In fact the Lord worked against them to remove them from the camp, until they were all dead.
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Once the people's warriors had died,
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the Lord told me,
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“Today you will cross out of Moab at the border near Ar.
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However, when you enter Ammonite territory, don't cause them any trouble or fight with them for I'm...
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(This land was previously considered as the country of the Rephaim who used to live there. However,...
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They were a strong and numerous people, as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord destroyed them when the...
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just as he'd done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir when he destroyed the Horites. They...
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The Avvim, living in villages as far away as Gaza, were destroyed by the Philistines, who came from...
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Then the Lord told us, “Get up, go and cross the Arnon Valley. Look, I have handed over to you Sihon...
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From this day on, I'm going to make all nations on earth dread you—they will be terrified of you. Be...
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Moses told the Israelites, “From the Kedemoth Desert I sent messengers with an offer of peace to Sih...
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‘Let us pass through your land. We'll stay on the main road and won't turn off either to the right o...
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Sell us food to eat and water to drink for money. Just let us pass through on foot,
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just like the descendants of Esau living in Seir and the Moabites living in Ar allowed us, until we...
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But Sihon king of Heshbon refused to let us pass through, for the Lord your God (Elohim) gave him a...
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Then the Lord told me, “Look, I have started handing Sihon and his land over to you. Now you can beg...
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The Lord our God (Elohim) handed him over to us, and we killed him, his sons, and all his army.
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We also captured all his towns, and set apart for destruction the people of every town: men, women,...
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No town had walls too high for us to conquer—from Aroer on the edge of the Arnon Valley, the town in...
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But you didn't go anywhere near the country of the Ammonites—the area that borders the Jabbok River...
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