Deuteronomy 2:9-18

9Then the Lord said to me, ‘Do not make the people of Moab angry. Do not start a fight against them. I will not give any part of their land to you. I have given Ar to Lot's descendants to be their city.’

10(Some people called the Emites once lived there. There were many of them and they were as strong and tall as the Anakites.

11Some people called the Emites and the Anakites, ‘Rephaites’. But the people from Moab called them ‘Emites’.

12Before this time, the Horites lived in Seir, but the descendants of Esau chased them away. They destroyed the Horites and they lived in their country. The Israelites did the same thing to the people who had lived in the land that the Lord gave to them.)

13Then the Lord said, ‘Get up now and cross the Zered valley.’ So we went across the stream.

1438 years had passed since we left Kadesh-Barnea. By the time we crossed the Zered valley, all the men who had been old enough to fight had now died. The Lord had said that this would happen.

15The Lord himself removed them so that they all died, one by one.

16Finally, the last one of these men died and no longer lived among the people.

17Then the Lord said to me,

18‘Today you will cross the border of Moab at Ar.