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"Then we turned and journeyed into the wilderness of the Way of the Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and we skirted Mount Seir for many days.
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And the Lord spoke to me, saying:
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'You have skirted this mountain long enough; turn northward.
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And command the people, saying, "You are about to pass through the territory of your brethren, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Therefore watch yourselves carefully.
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Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
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You shall buy food from them with money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink.
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For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand. He knows your trudging through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing." '
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"And when we passed beyond our brethren, the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir, away from the road of the plain, away from Elath and Ezion Geber, we turned and passed by way of the Wilderness of Moab.
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Then the Lord said to me, 'Do not harass Moab, nor contend with them in battle, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as a possession.' "
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(The Emim had dwelt there in times past, a people as great and numerous and tall as the Anakim.
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They were also regarded as giants, like the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.
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The Horites formerly dwelt in Seir, but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their place, just as Israel did to the land of their possession which the Lord gave them.)
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" 'Now rise and cross over the Valley of the Zered.' So we crossed over the Valley of the Zered.
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And the time we took to come from Kadesh Barnea until we crossed over the Valley of the Zered was thirty-eight years, until all the generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.
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For indeed the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp until they were consumed.