13“Now arise and cross over the Brook of Zered.”
So we crossed over the Brook of Zered.
14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as YHVH had sworn to them. 15Indeed, YHVH’s hand was against them, to eliminate them from the camp, until they had all perished.
16Now when all the fighting men among the people had died, 17YHVH said to me, 18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab at Ar. 19But when you get close to the Ammonites, do not harass them or provoke them, for I will not give you any of the land of the Ammonites. I have given it to the descendants of Lot as their possession.”
20(That too was regarded as the land of the Rephaim, who used to live there, though the Ammonites called them Zamzummites. 21They were a people great and many, as tall as the Anakites. But YHVH destroyed them from before the Ammonites, who drove them out and settled in their place,22just as He had done for the descendants of Esau who lived in Seir, when He destroyed the Horites from before them. They drove them out and have lived in their place to this day. 23And the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, were destroyed by the Caphtorites, who came out of Caphtorband settled in their place.)
Syncing the end from the beginning
