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Deuteronomy 2:8
“So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.”
Verse in context — Deuteronomy 2
You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.
For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.
So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
Yahweh said to me, "Don't bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.
(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:
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Moses’ final speeches, reminding Israel of God’s law before entering the Promised Land.
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