申命記 第 2 章

And we turned and set out into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea, in the manner the Lord spoke to me, and we circled Mount Seir for many days.

And the Lord said to me:

Let it be enough for you to have circled this mountain; turn now toward the north.

And command the people, saying: You are passing through the borders of your brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you and will be very much on their guard against you.

Do not engage in war with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot's tread, because I have given Mount Seir to the sons of Esau as an inheritance.

Buy food from them with silver and eat, and take water from them by measure with silver and drink.

For the Lord our God has blessed you in every work of your hands. Consider how you passed through that great and fearful wilderness; behold, these forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

And we passed by our brothers, the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, along the road of Araba, from Ailon and from Gasiongaber; and we turned and passed along the road of the wilderness of Moab.

And the Lord said to me: Do not be hostile to the Moabites, and do not engage in war with them, for I will not give you any of their land as an inheritance; for I have given Seir to the sons of Lot to inherit.

The Ommin formerly dwelt in it, a nation great and numerous and strong like the Enakim.

These also shall be reckoned as Raphain, like the Enakim; but the Moabites call them Ommin.

And in Seir the Chorrite formerly dwelt, but the sons of Esau destroyed them and wiped them out from before them, and settled in their place, in the manner Israel did to the land of his inheritance which the Lord gave to them.

Now therefore rise up and set out, and pass over the Ravine of Zaret. And we passed over the Ravine of Zaret.

And the days that we journeyed from Kades Barne until we passed over the Ravine of Zaret were thirty-eight years, until the whole generation of fighting men had perished, dying out of the camp, as God swore to them.

And the hand of God was upon them, to consume them out of the camp until they had perished.

And it came to pass when all the fighting men had perished, dying out from the midst of the people,

that the Lord spoke to me, saying:

You are passing today through the borders of Moab, that is Seir.

And when you draw near the sons of Amman, do not be hostile to them, and do not engage them in war, for I will not give you any of the land of the sons of Amman as an inheritance, because I have given it to the sons of Lot as an inheritance.

It also shall be reckoned a land of Raphain, for the Raphain dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammanites call them Zomzommin,

a nation great and numerous and mightier than you, like the Enakim; and the Lord destroyed them before their face, and they took possession and settled in their place until this day.

as they did for the sons of Esau who dwell in Seir, in the manner they wiped out the Chorrite from before them and took possession and settled in their place until this day.

And as for the Hivites who dwell in Aseroth as far as Gaza, the Cappadocians who came out of Cappadocia wiped them out and settled in their place.

Now therefore rise up and set out, and cross over the Ravine of Arnon. Behold, I have delivered into your hands Seon king of Esebon the Amorite, and his land. Begin to inherit it; engage in war with him.

On this day begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you upon the face of all the nations under heaven, who, when they hear your name, shall be troubled and shall have birth pangs before your face.

And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with words of peace, saying:

Let me pass through your land; I will go by the road, I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

You shall sell me food for silver, and I will eat, and you shall sell me water for silver, and I will drink; only let me pass through on foot,

as the sons of Esau who dwell in Seir and the Moabites who dwell in Aroer did for me, until I cross the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.

But Seon king of Esebon was not willing that we should pass through his territory, because the Lord our God had hardened his spirit and made his heart strong, so that he might be delivered into your hands, as it is this day.

And the Lord said to me: Behold, I have begun to deliver before you Seon king of Esebon the Amorite and his land. Begin to inherit his land.

And Seon king of Esebon came out to meet us, he and all his people, to war at Iassa.

And the Lord our God delivered him before our face, and we struck him down and his sons and all his people.

And we took possession of all his cities at that time, and we utterly destroyed every city in succession, and their women and their children; we left no one alive.

Only the livestock we took as plunder, and the spoils of the cities we took.

From Aroer, which is by the bank of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the ravine, as far as the mountain of Galaad, there was no city that escaped us; the Lord our God delivered them all into our hands.

Only to the land of the sons of Ammon we did not draw near — all the places bordering the wadi Iabok, and the cities in the hill country — as the Lord our God commanded us.