1 Daarna het ons gedraai en weggetrek na die woestyn, op pad na die Skelfsee, soos die HERE aan my gesê het, en ons het om die gebergte Se‹r getrek, baie dae lank.
2 Toe het die HERE met my gespreek en gesê:
3 Julle het lank genoeg om hierdie gebergte getrek. Draai noordwaarts weg
4 en gee aan die volk bevel en sê: Julle gaan trek deur die grondgebied van julle broers die kinders van Esau wat in Se‹r woon, en hulle sal vir julle vrees; pas dan goed op;
5 begeef julle nie in die oorlog teen hulle nie, want Ek sal julle van hulle land selfs nie 'n voetbreed gee nie; want Ek het aan Esau die gebergte Se‹r as 'n besitting gegee.
6 Voedsel moet julle van hulle vir geld koop, dat julle kan eet; en julle moet ook water van hulle vir geld koop, dat julle kan drink.
7 Want die HERE jou God het jou geseënin al die werk van jou hand; Hy ken jou trek deur hierdie groot woestyn; nou veertig jaar lank was die HERE jou God met jou; geen ding het jou ontbreek nie.
8 Daarop het ons verder getrek, weg van ons broers, die kinders van Esau wat in Se‹r woon, weg van die pad deur die Vlakte, weg van Elat en Âseon-Geber; ons het toe weggedraai en verder getrek op pad na die woestyn van Moab.
9 Toe het die HERE vir my gesê: Behandel Moab nie as vyand en begeef jou nie in die oorlog teen hulle nie; want Ek sal jou niks van sy land as besitting gee nie, omdat Ek Ar aan die kinders van Lot as 'n besitting gegee het.
10 Die Emiete het tevore daarin gewoon, 'n volk groot en talryk en hoog van gestalte soos die Enakiete.
11 Hulle word ook vir Refa‹ete gehou, soos die Enakiete; maar die Moabiete het hulle Emiete genoem.
12 Ook het die Horiete tevore in Se‹r gewoon; maar die kinders van Esau het hulle uit hul besitting verdrywe en voor hulle uit verdelg en in hulle plek gaan woon, net soos Israel gedoen het met die land van sy besitting wat die HERE aan hulle gegee het.
13 Maak nou klaar en trek oor die spruit Sered. Toe het ons oor die spruit Sered getrek.
14 En die dae van ons trek van Kades-Barn,a af totdat ons oor die spruit Sered gegaan het, was agt en dertig jaar -- totdat die hele geslag, die krygsmanne, uit die laer omgekom het soos die HERE hulle dit gesweer het.
15 So was die hand van die HERE dan ook teen hulle om hulle uit die laer te vernietig totdat hulle omgekom het.
16 En toe al die krygsmanne heeltemal onder die volk uit weggesterf het,
17 het die HERE met my gespreek en gesê:
18 Jy trek vandag die grens van Moab by Ar oor,
19 en jy sal kom in die nabyheid van die kinders van Ammon; behandel hulle nie as vyande en begeef jou nie in die oorlog teen hulle nie; want Ek sal jou niks van die kinders van Ammon se land as besitting gee nie, omdat Ek dit aan die kinders van Lot as besitting gegee het.
20 Dit word ook as 'n land van Refa‹ete beskou; Refa‹ete het tevore daarin gewoon, en die Ammoniete het hulle Samsummiete genoem --
21 'n volk groot en talryk en hoog van gestalte soos die Enakiete -- maar die HERE het die voor hulle uit verdelg, sodat hulle die uit hulle besitting verdryf en in hulle plek gaan woon het;
22 soos Hy in die geval van die kinders van Esau gedoen het wat in Se‹r woon, voor wie Hy die Horiete verdelg het, sodat hulle die uit hulle besitting verdryf en in hulle plek gaan woon het tot vandag toe.
23 Ook het die Kaftoriete wat uit Kaftor afkomstig was, die Awiete wat in dorpe tot by Gasa gewoon het, verdelg en in hulle plek gaan woon.
24 Maak julle klaar, breek op en trek deur die Arnonrivier. Kyk, Ek gee Sihon, die koning van Hesbon, die Amoriet, en sy land in jou hand; begin om in besit te neem, en begeef jou in die oorlog teen hom.
25 Vandag sal Ek begin om die skrik en die vrees vir jou op die volke onder die hele hemel te lê, sodat hulle, as hulle die tyding aangaande jou hoor, voor jou sal sidder en bewe van angs.
26 Toe het ek boodskappers gestuur uit die woestyn Ked,mot na Sihon, die koning van Hesbon, met woorde van vrede om te sê:
27 Laat my deur jou land gaan; ek sal net padlangs trek; ek sal nie regs of links uitdraai nie.
28 Voedsel moet jy my verkoop vir geld, dat ek kan eet; en water moet jy my gee vir geld, dat ek kan drink; laat my net te voet deurtrek --
29 soos die kinders van Esau wat in Se‹r woon, en die Moabiete wat in Ar woon, met my gedoen het -- totdat ek deur die Jordaan trek in die land wat die HERE onse God aan ons sal gee.
30 Maar Sihon, die koning van Hesbon, wou ons nie by hom laat deurtrek nie; want die HERE jou God het sy gees verhard en sy hart verstok, dat Hy hom in jou hand kon gee soos dit vandag is.
31 En die HERE het vir my gesê: Kyk, Ek begin om Sihon en sy land aan jou oor te gee; begin om in besit te neem, om sy land in besit te neem.
32 Toe het Sihon uitgetrek ons tegemoet, hy en sy hele volk, om te veg by Jahas.
33 En die HERE onse God het hom aan ons oorgegee, sodat ons hom en sy seuns en sy hele volk verslaan het.
34 En ons het in die tyd al sy stede ingeneem en elke stad met die banvloek getref, manne en vroue en kinders; ons het niemand laat vryraak nie.
35 Net die vee het ons vir ons geroof en die buit van die stede wat ons ingeneem het.
36 Van Aroër af wat aan die kant van die Arnonrivier lê, en die stad in die dal, tot by G¡lead was daar vir ons geen vesting onneembaar nie -- die HERE onse God het alles aan ons oorgegee.
37 Net naby die land van die kinders van Ammon het jy nie gekom nie: die hele kant van die Jabbokrivier en die stede van die gebergte en alles wat die HERE onse God verbied het.
1 Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to me: and we were a long time going round Mount Seir.
2 And the Lord said to me,
3 You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
4 And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the children of Esau, who are living in Seir; and they will have fear of you; so take care what you do:
5 Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's foot: because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for his heritage.
6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.
7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.
8 So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.
9 And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.
10 (In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
11 They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
12 And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; they sent destruction on them and took their land for themselves, as Israel did to the land of his heritage which the Lord gave them.)
13 Get up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went over the stream Zered.
14 Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.
15 For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.
16 So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,
17 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
18 You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;
19 And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.
20 (That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living there in earlier times, but they were named Zamzummim by the Ammonites;
21 They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;
22 As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before them, and they took their land where they are living to this day:
23 And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Caphtorim who came out from Caphtor and took their land.)
24 Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I have given into your hands Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and all his land: go forward to make it yours, and make war on him,
25 From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.
26 Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,
27 Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;
28 Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;
29 As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.
30 But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.
31 And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into your hands: go forward now to take his land and make it yours.
32 Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at Jahaz.
33 And the Lord our God gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons and all his people.
34 At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:
35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.
36 From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead, no town was strong enough to keep us out; the Lord our God gave them all into our hands:
37 But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok or the towns of the hill-country, wherever the Lord our God had said we were not to go.