1 GLT And the Canaanite king of Arad, who dwelled in the Negev, heard that Israel had come by the road of the Atharim, and he fought against Israel and took captive some of them as captives. BSB BSB: When the Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming along the road to Atharim, he attacked Israel and captured some prisoners.
2 GLT And Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh and said,“If you surely give this people into my hand, then I will dedicate their cities by ban.” BSB BSB: So Israel made a vow to the LORD: “If You will deliver this people into our hands, we will devote their cities to destruction.”
3 GLT And Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanites, and he dedicated them and their cities by ban, and he called the name of the place Hormah. BSB BSB: And the LORD heard Israel’s plea and delivered up the Canaanites. Israel devoted them and their cities to destruction; so they named the place Hormah.
4 GLT And they set out from Mount Hor by the road of the Sea of Reeds to go around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was short on the road, BSB BSB: Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
5 GLT and the people spoke against God and against Moses:“Why did you bring us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water, and our soul detests the worthless bread.” BSB BSB: and spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you led us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread or water, and we detest this wretched food!”
6 GLT And Yahweh sent snakes, fiery ones, among the people and they bit the people, and many people from Israel died. BSB BSB: So the LORD sent venomous snakes among the people, and many of the Israelites were bitten and died.
7 GLT And the people came to Moses and said,“We have sinned because we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh and may he remove from on us the snake,” and Moses prayed on behalf of the people. BSB BSB: Then the people came to Moses and said, “We have sinned by speaking against the LORD and against you. Intercede with the LORD so He will take the snakes away from us.” So Moses interceded for the people.
8 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Make for yourself a snake and set it on a pole, and it will happen that any of the bitten will see it and live.” BSB BSB: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent and mount it on a pole. When anyone who is bitten looks at it, he will live.”
9 GLT And Moses made a snake of bronze, and he set it on the pole. And it happened that if the snake bit a man, then he looked to the snake of bronze, and he lived. BSB BSB: So Moses made a bronze snake and mounted it on a pole. If anyone who was bitten looked at the bronze snake, he would live.
10 GLT And the sons of Israel set out and camped at Oboth. BSB BSB: Then the Israelites set out and camped at Oboth.
11 GLT And they set out from Oboth and camped at Iye Abarim in the wilderness that is on the face of Moab from the rising of the sun. BSB BSB: They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim in the wilderness opposite Moab to the east.
12 GLT From there they set out and camped at the wadi of Zered. BSB BSB: From there they set out and camped in the Valley of Zered.
13 GLT From there they set out and camped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness that goes out from the border of the Amorite, because the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorite. BSB BSB: From there they moved on and camped on the other side of the Arnon, in the wilderness that extends into the Amorite territory. Now the Arnon is the border between the Moabites and the Amorites.
14 GLT Therefore, it says in the book of the Wars of Yahweh,“… Waheb in Suphah, and the wadis of the Arnon, BSB BSB: Therefore it is stated in the Book of the Wars of the LORD: “Waheb in Suphah and the wadis of the Arnon,
15 GLT and the slope of the wadis that spreads out to the dwelling of Ar and it leans to the border of Moab,” BSB BSB: even the slopes of the wadis that extend to the site of Ar and lie along the border of Moab.”
16 GLT and from there to Beer. It is the well where Yahweh said to Moses,“Gather the people, and I will give water to them.” BSB BSB: From there they went on to Beer, the well where the LORD said to Moses, “Gather the people so that I may give them water.”
17 GLT Then Israel sang this song:“Rise up, well! Sing for it, BSB BSB: Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well, all of you sing to it!
18 GLT the well leaders dug, the noblemen of the people dug it, with a decreer’ s staff and their staffs.” And from the wilderness to Mattanah BSB BSB: The princes dug the well; the nobles of the people hollowed it out with their scepters and with their staffs.” From the wilderness the Israelites went on to Mattanah,
19 GLT and from Mattanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth BSB BSB: and from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to Bamoth,
20 GLT and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, the head of the Pisgah, and is looking down on the face of the wasteland. BSB BSB: and from Bamoth to the valley in Moab where the top of Pisgah overlooks the wasteland.
21 GLT And Israel sent messengers to Sihon the king of the Amorite, saying, BSB BSB: Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
22 GLT “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn into a field or into a vineyard. We will not drink the water of a well. We will go by the road of the king until we have passed through your border.” BSB BSB: “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn aside into any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will stay on the King’s Highway until we have passed through your territory.”
23 GLT And Sihon did not give Israel passage through his boundary, and Sihon gathered all his people and went out to the wilderness to meet Israel, and he came to Jahaz and fought with Israel. BSB BSB: But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. Instead, he gathered his whole army and went out to confront Israel in the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.
24 GLT And Israel struck him by the mouth of the sword and took possession of his land from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon, because the border of the sons of Ammon was fortified. BSB BSB: And Israel put him to the sword and took possession of his land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok—but only up to the border of the Ammonites, because it was fortified.
25 GLT And Israel took all these cities, and Israel dwelled in all the cities of the Amorite in Heshbon and in all its daughters. BSB BSB: Israel captured all the cities of the Amorites and occupied them, including Heshbon and all its villages.
26 GLT For Heshbon, it was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorite, and he had fought with the previous king of Moab and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. BSB BSB: Heshbon was the city of Sihon king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab and taken all his land as far as the Arnon.
27 GLT Therefore the speakers of proverbs say,“Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established. BSB BSB: That is why the poets say: “Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt; let the city of Sihon be restored.
28 GLT For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It ate Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon. BSB BSB: For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
29 GLT Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh. He has given his sons to be escapees and his daughters into the captivity of Sihon the king of the Amorites. BSB BSB: Woe to you, O Moab! You are destroyed, O people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons as refugees, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 GLT And we have shot them. Heshbon has perished as far as Dibon. And we have made devastation as far as Nophah, which is as far as Medeba.” BSB BSB: But we have overthrown them; Heshbon is destroyed as far as Dibon. We demolished them as far as Nophah, which reaches to Medeba.”
31 GLT And Israel dwelled in the land of the Amorites, BSB BSB: So Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.
32 GLT and Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they captured her daughters, and they dispossessed the Amorites who were there. BSB BSB: After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
33 GLT And they turned and went up the road of the Bashan. And Og the king of the Bashan went out to meet them, he and all his people, to the battle at Edrei. BSB BSB: Then they turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet them in battle at Edrei.
34 GLT And Yahweh said to Moses,“Do not fear him, because I have given into your hand him and all his people and his land, and you shall do to him just as you did to Sihon the king of the Amorite, who dwelled in Heshbon.” BSB BSB: But the LORD said to Moses, “Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”
35 GLT And they struck him and his sons and all his people until they had left no survivor for him, and they took possession of his land. BSB BSB: So they struck down Og, along with his sons and his whole army, until no remnant was left. And they took possession of his land.
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