1 And when King Arad, the Canaanite who dwelt in the south, heard that Israel was coming on the way to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them captive.
2 And Israel vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If You will grant to deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
3 And Jehovah heard the voice of Israel and delivered up the Canaanites, and they utterly destroyed them and their cities. So the name of that place was called Hormah.
4 And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient on 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 food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread.
6 And Jehovah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died.
7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against Jehovah and against you; intercede before Jehovah that He take away the serpents from us. So Moses interceded for the people.
8 And Jehovah said to Moses, Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that anyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live.
9 And Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.
10 And the children of Israel set out and encamped in Oboth.
11 And they journeyed from Oboth and camped at Ije Abarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
12 From there they set out and encamped in the valley of Zered.
13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from 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 Jehovah: Waheb in Suphah, the brooks of the Arnon,
15 and the slope of the brooks that extends down to the dwelling of Ar, and leans on the border of Moab.
16 From there they went to Beer, which is the well where Jehovah said to Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel sang this song: Spring up, O well! All of you sing to it;
18 the well the rulers dug, dug by the nobles of the people, by the Lawgiver, with their staffs. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,
19 from Mattanah to Nahaliel, from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the land of Moab, to the top of Pisgah which looks down and faces the wilderness.
21 And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into fields or vineyards; we will not drink water from wells. We will go by the Kings Highway until we have passed through your territory.
23 But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. And Sihon gathered all his people together and went out against Israel in the wilderness, and he came to Jahaz and fought against Israel.
24 And Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and took possession of his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
25 And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon and in all its villages.
26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon.
27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say: Come to Heshbon, let it be built; let the city of Sihon be repaired.
28 For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the heights of the Arnon.
29 Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, O people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 But we have shot at them; Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon; and we laid waste as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan. So Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
34 And Jehovah said to Moses, Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, with all his people and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they struck him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left; and they took possession of his land.
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.