1 Quando o rei cananeu de Arade, que vivia no Neguebe, soube que Israel vinha pela estrada de Atarim, atacou os israelitas e capturou alguns deles.

2 Então Israel fez este voto ao Senhor: "Se entregares este povo em nossas mãos, destruiremos totalmente as suas cidades".

3 O Senhor ouviu o pedido de Israel e lhes entregou os cananeus. Israel os destruiu completamente, a eles e às suas cidades; de modo que o lugar foi chamado Hormá.

4 Partiram eles do monte Hor pelo caminho do mar Vermelho, para contornarem a terra de Edom. Mas o povo ficou impaciente no caminho

5 e falou contra Deus e contra Moisés, dizendo: "Por que vocês nos tiraram do Egito para morrermos no deserto? Não há pão! Não há água! E nós detestamos esta comida miserável! "

6 Então o Senhor enviou serpentes venenosas que morderam o povo, e muitos morreram.

7 O povo foi a Moisés e disse: "Pecamos quando falamos contra o Senhor e contra você. Ore pedindo ao Senhor que tire as serpentes do meio de nós". E Moisés orou pelo povo.

8 O Senhor disse a Moisés: "Faça uma serpente e coloque-a no alto de um poste; quem for mordido e olhar para ela viverá".

9 Moisés fez então uma serpente de bronze e a colocou num poste. Quando alguém era mordido por uma serpente e olhava para a serpente de bronze, permanecia vivo.

10 Os israelitas partiram e acamparam em Obote.

11 Depois partiram de Obote e acamparam em Ijé-Abarim, no deserto defronte de Moabe, ao leste.

12 Dali partiram e acamparam no vale de Zerede.

13 Partiram dali e acamparam do outro lado do Arnom, que fica no deserto que se estende até o território amorreu. O Arnom é a fronteira de Moabe, entre Moabe e os amorreus.

14 É por isso que se diz no Livro das Guerras do Senhor: "... Vaebe, em Sufá, e os vales, o Arnom

15 e as ravinas dos vales que se estendem até a cidade de Ar e chegam até a fronteira de Moabe".

16 De lá prosseguiram até Beer, ao poço do qual o Senhor disse a Moisés: "Reúna o povo, e eu lhe darei água".

17 Então Israel cantou esta canção: "Brote água, ó poço! Cantem a seu respeito,

18 a respeito do poço que os líderes cavaram, que os nobres abriram com cetros e cajados". Então saíram do deserto para Mataná,

19 de Mataná para Naaliel, de Naaliel para Bamote,

20 e de Bamote para o vale de Moabe, onde o topo do Pisga defronta com o deserto de Jesimom.

21 Israel enviou mensageiros para dizer a Seom, rei dos amorreus:

22 "Deixa-nos atravessar a tua terra. Não entraremos em nenhuma plantação, em nenhuma vinha, nem beberemos água de poço algum. Passaremos pela estrada do rei até que tenhamos atravessado o teu território".

23 Seom, porém, não deixou Israel atravessar o seu território. Convocou todo o seu exército e atacou Israel no deserto. Quando chegou a Jaza, lutou contra Israel.

24 Porém Israel o destruiu com a espada e tomou-lhe as terras desde o Arnom até o Jaboque, até o território dos amonitas, pois Jazar estava na fronteira dos amonitas.

25 Israel capturou todas as cidades dos amorreus e as ocupou, inclusive Hesbom e todos os seus povoados.

26 Hesbom era a cidade de Seom, rei dos amorreus, que havia lutado contra o antigo rei de Moabe, tendo lhe tomado todas as suas terras até o Arnom.

27 É por isso que os poetas dizem: "Venham a Hesbom! Seja ela reconstruída; seja restaurada a cidade de Seom!

28 "Fogo saiu de Hesbom, uma chama da cidade de Seom; consumiu Ar, de Moabe, os senhores do alto Arnom.

29 Ai de você, Moabe! Você está destruído, ó povo de Camos! Ele fez de seus filhos, fugitivos e de suas filhas, prisioneiras de Seom, rei dos amorreus.

30 "Mas nós os derrotamos; Hesbom está destruída por todo o caminho até Dibom. Nós os arrasamos até Nofá, e até Medeba".

31 Assim Israel habitou na terra dos amorreus.

32 Moisés enviou espiões a Jazar, e os israelitas tomaram os povoados ao redor e expulsaram os amorreus que ali estavam.

33 Depois voltaram e subiram pelo caminho de Basã, e Ogue, rei de Basã, com todo o seu exército, marchou para enfrentá-los em Edrei.

34 Mas o Senhor disse a Moisés: "Não tenha medo dele, pois eu o entreguei a você, juntamente com todo o seu exército e com a sua terra. Você fará com ele o que fez com Seom, rei dos amorreus, que habitava em Hesbom".

35 Então eles o derrotaram, bem como os seus filhos e todo o seu exército, não lhes deixando sobrevivente algum. E tomaram posse da terra dele.

1 And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelled in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

2 And Israel vowed a vow to the LORD, and said, If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.

3 And the LORD listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

5 And the people spoke against God, and against Moses, Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loathes this light bread.

6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD, and against you; pray to the LORD, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

8 And the LORD said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looks on it, shall live.

9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it on a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.

10 And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.

11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ijeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sun rise.

12 From there they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.

13 From there they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

14 Why it is said in the book of the wars of the LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,

15 And at the stream of the brooks that goes down to the dwelling of Ar, and lies on the border of Moab.

16 And from there they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the LORD spoke to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

17 Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing you to it:

18 The princes dig the well, the nobles of the people dig it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:

20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that is in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks toward Jeshimon.

21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

22 Let me pass through your land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink of the waters of the well: but we will go along by the king' high way, until we be past your borders.

23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon to Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

25 And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to Arnon.

27 Why they that speak in proverbs say, Come into Heshbon, let the city of Sihon be built and prepared:

28 For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it has consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

29 Woe to you, Moab! you are undone, O people of Chemosh: he has given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even to Dibon, and we have laid them waste even to Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.

31 Thus Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites.

32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.

34 And the LORD said to Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelled at Heshbon.

35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.