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And the Kena’ani, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the Negev, heard that Yisra’el was coming by the way of the Atharim. And he fought against Yisra’el and took some of them captive.
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And Yisra’el vowed a vow to Yahuah and said, “If giving, You will surely give this people into my hand, then I will devote their cities to destruction.”
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And Yahuah listened to the voice of Yisra’el and gave the Kena’ani into his hand. And he devoted them and their cities to destruction, and he called the name of the place Chormah.
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And they journeyed from Mount Hor by the way of the Sea of Reeds, to go around the land of Edom. And the being of the people became short because of the way.
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And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh: “Why have you brought us up from Mitzrayim to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and no water, and our being loathes this worthless bread.”
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And Yahuah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people, and many people from Yisra’el died.
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And the people came to Mosheh and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahuah and against you. Pray to Yahuah that He remove the serpent from us.” And Mosheh prayed for the people.
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And Yahuah said to Mosheh, “Make for yourself a fiery one and place it upon a standard. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
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And Mosheh made a serpent of bronze and placed it upon the standard. And it came to pass, if the serpent had bitten an ish, and he looked toward the bronze serpent, he lived.
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And the sons of Yisra’el journeyed and encamped at Ovot.
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And they journeyed from Ovot and encamped at Iyei-HaAvarim, in the wilderness that is before Moav, toward the sunrise.
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From there they journeyed and encamped in the wadi of Zered.
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From there they journeyed and encamped on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness extending from the border of the Emori, for Arnon is the border of Moav, between Moav and the Emori.
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Therefore it is said in the sefer of the Wars of Yahuah: “Vahev in Sufah, and the wadis of Arnon,
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and the slope of the wadis that turns toward the dwelling of Ar and leans upon the border of Moav.”
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And from there to Be’er. This is the well concerning which Yahuah said to Mosheh, “Gather the people, and I will give them water.”
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Then Yisra’el sang this song: “Rise up, O well! Answer to it!
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The well that rulers dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the ruler’s staff, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,
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and from Mattanah to Nachaliel, and from Nachaliel to Bamot,
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and from Bamot to the valley that is in the field of Moav, at the top of Pisgah, overlooking the face of the wasteland.
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And Yisra’el sent messengers to Sichon king of the Emori, saying,
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“Let me pass through your land. We will not turn aside into field or vineyard. We will not drink water from a well. By the king’s road we will go until we have passed through your border.”
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But Sichon would not allow Yisra’el to pass through his border. And Sichon gathered all his people and went out against Yisra’el into the wilderness. And he came to Yahatz and fought against Yisra’el.
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And Yisra’el struck him with the mouth of the sword and possessed his land from Arnon to Yabboq, as far as the sons of Ammon, for the border of the sons of Ammon was strong.
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And Yisra’el took all these cities, and Yisra’el dwelt in all the cities of the Emori, in Cheshbon and in all its daughter towns.
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For Cheshbon was the city of Sichon king of the Emori, and he had fought against the former king of Moav and taken all his land from his hand as far as Arnon.
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Therefore those who speak in proverbs say: “Come to Cheshbon! Let the city of Sichon be built and established.
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For fire went out from Cheshbon, a flame from the city of Sichon. It consumed Ar of Moav, the masters of the high places of Arnon.
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Woe to you, Moav! You are lost, people of Kemosh! He gave his sons as fugitives and his daughters into captivity to Sichon king of the Emori.
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And we shot them down. Cheshbon was destroyed as far as Divon, and we laid waste as far as Nofach, which reaches to Medeva.”
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And Yisra’el dwelt in the land of the Emori.
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And Mosheh sent to search out Yazer, and they captured its daughter towns and dispossessed the Emori who were there.
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And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan. And Og king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.
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And Yahuah said to Mosheh, “Do not fear him, for into your hand I have given him and all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as you did to Sichon king of the Emori, who dwelt in Cheshbon.”
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And they struck him and his sons and all his people until no survivor remained to him, and they possessed his land.