Números 21

1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard that Israel came by the way of Atharim. He fought against Israel, and took some of them captive. 2 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." 3 Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. The name of the place was called Hormah.*21:3 "Hormah" means "destruction".

4 They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom. The soul of the people was very discouraged because of the journey. 5 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, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!"

6 Yahweh sent venomous snakes among the people, and they bit the people. Many people of Israel died. 7 The people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us." Moses prayed for the people.

8 Yahweh said to Moses, "Make a venomous snake, and set it on a pole. It shall happen that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live." 9 Moses made a serpent of bronze, and set it on the pole. If a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked at the serpent of bronze, he lived.

10 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth. 11 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. 12 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. 13 From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that comes out of the border of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites. 14 Therefore it is said in The Book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

16 From there they traveled to Beer; that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

17 Then Israel sang this song:

"Spring up, well! Sing to it,

18 the well, which the princes dug,

which the nobles of the people dug,

with the scepter, and with their poles."

From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. 21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 22 "Let me pass through your land. We will not turn away into field or vineyard. We will not drink of the water of the wells. We will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border."

23 Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border, but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz. He fought against Israel. 24 Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was fortified. 25 Israel took all these cities. Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its villages. 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 the Arnon. 27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,

"Come to Heshbon.

Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,

a flame from the city of Sihon.

It has devoured Ar of Moab,

The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

29 Woe to you, Moab!

You are undone, people of Chemosh!

He has given his sons as fugitives,

and his daughters into captivity,

to Sihon king of the Amorites.

30 We have shot at them.

Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.

We have laid waste even to Nophah,

Which reaches to Medeba."

31 Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites. 32 Moses sent to spy out Jazer. They took its villages, and drove out the Amorites who were there. 33 They turned and went up by the way of Bashan. Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

34 Yahweh said to Moses, "Don’t fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people, and his land. You shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon."

35 So they struck him, with his sons and all his people, until there were no survivors; and they possessed his land.

Te Nākahi Parāhi

1 Ā, ka rongo a Kīngi Arara, te Kanaani, i noho nei ki te taha ki te tonga, e haere ana a Īharaira nā te ara o Atarimi; nā, ka tatau ia ki a Īharaira, ā, whakaraua ana ētahi o rātou e ia. 2 Nā, ka puta te kī taurangi a Īharaira ki a Ihowā, ka mea, "Ki te tukua mai e koe tēnei iwi ki tōku ringa ka tino whakangaromia e ahau ō rātou pā." 3 Ā, i whakarongo a Ihowā ki te reo o Īharaira, ā, hōmai ana e ia ngā Kanaani; ā, tino whakangaromia ana rātou me ō rātou pā e rātou; ā, huaina iho te ingoa o taua wāhi ko Horema.

4 Nā, ka tūria atu e rātou i Maunga Horo nā te ara o te Moana Whero ki te taiāwhio i te whenua o Ēroma; ā pōuri noa iho te wairua o te iwi i te ara. 5 Ā, ka whakahē te iwi i te Atua, i a Mohi hoki, "He aha i kawea mai ai mātou ki runga nei i Īhipa kia mate ki te koraha? Kāhore nei hoki he taro, kāhore he wai; ā, e whakarihariha ana tō mātou wairua ki tēnei taro māmā."

6 Nā, ka tukua mai e Ihowā he nākahi tū ā-ahi ki te iwi, ā, ka ngaua te iwi; ā, he tokomaha o Īharaira i mate. 7 Nā, ka haere te iwi ki a Mohi, ka mea, "Kua hara mātou i a mātou i whakahē i a Ihowā, i a koe hoki; īnoi ki a Ihowā kia tangohia atu e ia ngā nākahi i a mātou." Nā, ka īnoi a Mohi mō te iwi.

8 Nā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Hangā tētahi nākahi tū ā-ahi māu, ka whakanoho ki te pou; nā, mehemea kua ngaua tētahi, ā, ka titiro atu ia ki reira, ka ora." 9 Nā, hangā ana e Mohi te nākahi ki te parāhi, ā, whakanohoia ana ki te pou; nā, mehemea kua ngaua tētahi e te nākahi, ka titiro ia ki te nākahi parāhi, kua ora.

Te Haerenga ki Moapa

10 Nā, ka tūria atu e ngā tama a Īharaira, ā, noho ana i Opoto. 11 Ā, ka tūria atu i Opoto, ā, noho ana i Iteaparimi, i te koraha i te ritenga atu o Moapa, whaka te rāwhiti. 12 Ā, ka haere atu rātou i reira, ā, noho ana i te raorao i Terete. 13 Nā, ka tūria atu i reira, ā, noho ana i tērā taha o Aranona, o tērā i te koraha e puta mai ana i ngā wāhi o ngā Amori; ko Aranona hoki te rohe ki a Moapa, kei waenganui o Moapa, o ngā Amori. 14 Koia i kōrerotia ai i te Pukapuka o ngā Whawhai a Ihowā,

"Ko tāna i mea ai ki te Moana Whero,

ki ngā awa hoki o Aranona,

15 ki ngā hurihanga wai anō hoki,

e anga ana ki te nohoanga i Ara,

e piri nei ki te rohe o Moapa."

16 Ā, i haere atu rātou i reira ki Pēre; ko te puna ia i kōrero ai a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Huihuia te iwi, ā, māku e hoatu he wai ki a rātou."

17 Nā, ka waiatatia tēnei waiata e Īharaira:

"Pupuke ake, e te puna! Waiatatia!

18 Te puna i keria e ngā rangatira,

i keria e ngā ariki o te iwi,

ki te hēpeta, ā, ki ā rātou tokotoko."

Nā, ka tūria atu e rātou i te koraha ki Matana, 19 i Matana hoki ki Nahariere; ā, i Nahariere ki Pamoto, 20 ā, i Pamoto ki te raorao i te whenua o Moapa, ki te tihi o Pihika, e titiro iho ana ki te koraha.

Te Patua iho o Kīngi Hihona rāua ko Kīngi Oka

21 Nā, ka unga tāngata a Īharaira ki a Hihona kīngi o ngā Amori, hei mea:

22 "Tukua atu ahau nā tōu whenua; e kore mātou e peka ki ngā māra, ki ngā māra wāina rānei; e kore mātou e inu i te wai o ngā puna. Ka haere mātou nā te huanui o te kīngi, kia pahemo rā anō ōu rohe i a mātou."

23 Otiia kīhai a Hihona i tuku i a Īharaira kia tika nā tōna wāhi; nā, huihuia ana e Hihona tōna iwi katoa, ā, puta mai ana ki te tū i a Īharaira ki te koraha, nā, ka haere ia ki Iahata; ā, ka tatau ia i a Īharaira. 24 Ā, patua iho ia e Īharaira ki te mata o te hoari, tangohia ana e rātou tōna whenua, o Aranona atu ā tae noa ki Iapoko, ki ngā tama rā anō a Āmona; he rohe hoki e kore e taea tō ngā tama a Āmona. 25 Ā, riro ana i a Īharaira ēnei pā katoa; ā, nohoia ana e Īharaira ngā pā katoa o ngā Amori, a Hehepona, me ōna pā ririki. 26 He pā hoki a Hehepona nō Hihona kīngi o ngā Amori; i whawhai hoki ia ki tō mua kīngi o Moapa, ā, tangohia ana ia tōna whenua katoa i tōna ringa ā tae noa ki Aranona.

27 Koia te hunga kōrero whakatauki ka mea ai,

"Haere mai ki Hehepona, kia hangā;

kia whakaūngia te pā o Hihona.

28 "Kua puta atu hoki he ahi i Hehepona,

he mura i te pā o Hihona.

Ā, pau ake a Ara o Moapa,

me ngā ariki o ngā wāhi tiketike o Aranona.

29 Auē te mate mōu, e Moapa!

Ka ngaro koe, e te iwi o Kemoho!

Kua hoatu e ia āna tama i rere mōrehu,

me āna tamāhine,

hei pononga mā Hihona,

mā te kīngi o ngā Amori.

30 "I kōpere atu mātou ki a rātou

kua ngaro a Hehepona, tae noa ki Ripono,

kua hunā e mātou tae noa ki Nopa e totoro atu nei ki Merepa."

31 Nā, ka noho a Īharaira ki te whenua o ngā Amori.

32 Ā, ka tono tāngata a Mohi ki te tūtei i Iatere, ā, ka riro i a rātou ngā pā o reira, i panā hoki ngā Amori e noho ana i reira.

33 Nā, ka tahuri rātou, ā, ka haere ki runga nā te ara o Pahana; nā, ko te putanga mai o Oka kīngi o Pahana, ki te whakatūtaki i a rātou, a ia, me tōna iwi katoa ki te whawhai ki Eterei. 34 Ā, ka mea a Ihowā ki a Mohi, "Kei wehi i a ia; kua hoatu hoki ia e ahau ki tōu ringa, me tōna iwi katoa, me tōna whenua; ā, ka rite tāu e mea ai ki a ia ki tāu i mea ai ki a Hihona kīngi o ngā Amori i noho rā i Hehepona."

35 Nā, patua iho ia e rātou, me āna tama, me tōna iwi katoa, ā, kore noa e toe tētahi mōrehu ōna; ā, tangohia ana e rātou tōna whenua.