Numbers 21 When the Canaanite king of Arad, dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and captured captives from him.

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ When the Canaanite king of Arad, dwelling in the Negev, heard that Israel was coming by way of Atharim, he fought against Israel and captured captives from him. ² Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh and said:If You give, yea give this people into my hand then I will doom their cities. ³ Yahweh heard the voice of Israel and gave the Canaanite into his hand. So he doomed them and their cities; hence one called the name of the place Hormah. ⁴ They journeyed from Mount Hor by way of the Sea of Weeds to get around the land of Edom. And the soul of the people was impatient on the way. ⁵ The people spoke against Elohim and against Moses:Why did you bring us up from Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread and there in no water, and our soul is irritated by the lightly esteemed bread. ⁶ So Yahweh sent burning serpents among the people; they bit the people, and many people of Israel died. ⁷ The people came to Moses and said:We have sinned, for we have spoken against Yahweh and against you. Pray to Yahweh that He may take the serpents away from us. So Moses prayed about the people. ⁸ Yahweh said to Moses:Make for yourself a burning serpent and place it on a banner pole; and it will come to be that anyone bitten, when he sees it, will live. ⁹ Moses made a serpent of copper and placed it on the banner pole, and it came to be that if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked to the copper serpent he lived. ¹⁰ The sons of Israel journeyed and encamped in Oboth. ¹¹ Then they journeyed from Oboth and encamped in Iyim of the Abarim, in the wilderness which is adjoining Moab from the sunrise. ¹² From there they journeyed and encamped in the watercourse of Zered. ¹³ From there they journeyed and encamped across the Arnon, which is in the wilderness going forth from the boundary of the Amorite, (for the Arnon is the boundary of Moab between Moab and the Amorite. ¹⁴ Therefore it is said in the Scroll of the Wars of Yahweh:The gushing river at the terminus! And the watercourses of Arnon! ¹⁵ The slope of the watercourses which stretches out to the seat of Ar, and leans to the boundary of Moab,. ¹⁶ and from there toward Beer (the same is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses:Gather the people so that I may give water to them; ¹⁷ then Israel sang this song:Come up, O well! Respond to it;" ¹⁸ a well--chiefs delved it, patrons of the people dug it with a statute-maker's staff, with their own staves) and from the wilderness to Mattanah, ¹⁹ and from Mattanah to Nahaliel and from Nahaliel to Bamoth, ²⁰ and from Bamoth to the ravine which is in the field of Moab, the summit of the Pisgah ridge that gazes over the surface of the desolation. ²¹ Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorite with words of peace, saying. ²² Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn aside into field or into vineyard. We shall not drink water of any well. By the king's road shall we go until we cross over your boundary. ²³ Yet Sihon would not allow Israel to cross over at his boundary. Sihon gathered all his people and went forth to meet Israel toward the wilderness. He came to Jahaz and fought against Israel. ²⁴ Yet Israel smote him with the edge of the sword and tenanted his land from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok, as far as the sons of Ammon, for the boundary of the sons of Ammon was Jazer. ²⁵ Israel took all these cities. Israel also dwelt in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon and in all its outskirts, ²⁶ for Heshbon, it was a city of Sihon king of the Amorite. He had fought against the former king of Moab and had taken all his land from his hand as far as the Arnon. ²⁷ Therefore those discoursers say:Come to Heshbon, let it be rebuilt, and let the city of Sihon establish itself. ²⁸ For a fire came forth from Heshbon, a blaze from the town of Sihon. It devoured Ar of Moab, the possessors of the fane heights of Arnon. ²⁹ Woe to you, Moab! You have perished, people of Chemosh! He gave up his sons delivered from slaughter, and his daughters into captivity to Sihon, king of the Amorite. ³⁰ We shot them; Heshbon perished as far as Dibon; we caused desolation until the fire was blown as far as Medeba. ³¹ When Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorite, ³² Moses sent men to spy out Jazer. They seized its outskirts and evicted the Amorite who was there. ³³ Then they turned around and went up by the Bashan road. Og king of Bashan went forth to meet them, he and all his people, for battle at Edrei. ³⁴ Now Yahweh said to Moses:Do not fear him, for into your hand I give him and all his people and his land. You will do to him just as you did to Sihon king of the Amorite who was dwelling in Heshbon. ³⁵ So they smote him and his sons and all his people until no survivor at all remained for him; and they tenanted his land.