1"And we turned and we moved to the wilderness in the way of the Sea of Reeds, as LORD JEHOVAH said to me, and we circled the mountain of Seir many days. 2And LORD JEHOVAH said to me: 3It has been long for you, behold, for you traveling around this mountain; turn yourselves to the north. 4And command the people and say to them: "You pass over into the borders of your brethren, the children of Esau dwelling in Seir, and they will be afraid of you; be well aware: 5And do not provoke them, because I have not given you an inheritance from their land among your footprints, because I have given the Mountain of Seir as a possession to Esau. 6Buy produce from them with silver and eat, also buy water from them with silver and drink. 7Because LORD JEHOVAH your God blessed you in all the works of your hands and he knew your course in this wilderness, behold, forty years; LORD JEHOVAH your God has been with you and you are lacking nothing.”

8And we passed through from the presence of our brethren the children of Esau, dwelling in Seir, and from the way of Arabah, and from Ailath, and from Izinugaber, and we turned and we passed through the way of the wilderness of Moab. 9And LORD JEHOVAH said to me: “Do not afflict the Moabites and do not provoke them to battle, because I do not give you an inheritance from their land, because I have given it an inheritance to the children of Lot. 10The Amney from the first have dwelt in it, a people great and many, and as high as giants; 11They are giants and those are considered also as giants, and the Moabites call them Amney. 12And the Khorites dwelt in Seir from first and the children of Esau inherited them and destroyed them from before them and they dwelt in their land as did Israel in the land of his inheritance that LORD JEHOVAH gave to them. 13Therefore arise, cross the Torrent of Zarad”; and we crossed the Torrent of Zarad. 14And the days when we walked from Raqem d'Gaya until we crossed the Torrent of Zarad were thirty and eight years until the entire generation of the men warriors from within the camp came to an end, as LORD JEHOVAH had sworn to them. 15Also, the hand of LORD JEHOVAH was on them that it would destroy them from within the camp until they were finished.

16And when all of the men, the makers of war, were consumed to die from among the people. 17LORD JEHOVAH spoke with me and said to me: 18“You pass over the border of Moab and to Ad today: 19And you shall come opposite the children of Amon; you shall not oppress them neither provoke them, because I do not give you an inheritance from the land of the children of Amon, for I have given it a possession to the children of Lot. 20That was considered also a land of the giants; giants dwelt in it from the first, and the Ammonites call them Zamzemin; 21A people great and many and high as giants, and LORD JEHOVAH destroyed them from before them, and they possessed them and dwelt in their land: 22As the children of Esau had done, dwelling in Seir, who destroyed the Khorites from before them and they possessed them and they have dwelt in their land until today: 23And the Avites who dwell in Khatsrim even unto Aza: the Qaphudqayeh—Cappadocians who had gone out from Qephaduqi—Cappadocia destroyed them and dwelt in their land.

24Therefore arise, pick up camp and cross the Torrent of Arnon; see I have delivered Sihon the King of Kheshbon the Amorite and his land into your hands; begin to destroy him and provoke his people to battle. 25Today I shall begin to put your awe and your trembling on the faces of the Gentiles under Heaven who will hear your fame, and they shall be shaken and shall be in awe of your presence.”

26And I sent Messengers from the wilderness of Qarmuth to Sihon the King of Kheshbon with words of peace to say to him: 27“We will pass through your land in the road; we will travel on the road and we will not turn away to the right or to the left. 28Sell produce to us for silver and let us eat, and sell water to us for silver, and we will drink, only let us pass on our feet; 29As the children of Esau dwelling in Seir had done to us, and the Moabites dwelling in Ad, until we pass over the Jordan to the land that LORD JEHOVAH our God gives to us.” 30And Sihon the King of Kheshbon did not want us to cross over his border because LORD JEHOVAH your God hardened his spirit and he hardened his heart to deliver him into your hands as today. 31And LORD JEHOVAH said to me: “See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land into your hands; begin to destroy him and to possess his land.”

32And Sihon went out to meet us for battle, he and all his people, at Yehats. 33And LORD JEHOVAH our God handed him over before us and we struck him with the sword, him and his children, and all his people. 34And we conquered all his cities at that time and we destroyed all the cities, destroying even the women and the little ones, and we have left no survivors: 35Only we captured the livestock for ourselves and the spoils of the cities that we conquered. 36From Aduir upon the edge of the Torrent of Arnon and the city that is in the valley and unto Gelad, there was not a city that was stronger than we; LORD JEHOVAH our God handed them all over before us: 37Only we have not approached the land of the children of Amon, everything beside the Torrent of Yabaq and villages of the mountains and all that LORD JEHOVAH our God commanded us.’”