Deuteronomy 2:9-18

9And the Lord said to me, ‘Do not harass [the descendants of] Moab, nor provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons (Moab and Ammon) of Lot as a possession.’

10(The Emim lived there in times past, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakim.

11These also are regarded as Rephaim [an ancient people], as are the Anakim, but the Moabites call them Emim.

12The Horites also used to live in Seir, but the sons of Esau dispossessed them. They destroyed them from before them and settled in their place, just as Israel did in the land which the Lord gave them as their possession.)

13‘Now arise and cross the valley of the Zered.’ So we crossed the Zered Valley.

14Now thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley, until that entire generation of the men of war had died from within the camp, just as the Lord had sworn to them.

15Moreover the hand of the Lord was against them, to destroy them from within the camp, until they were all dead.

16“So it came about when all the men of war had finally died from among the people,

17that the Lord spoke to me, saying,

18‘Today you are to pass through Ar, the border of Moab.