New American Standard Bible 1995

Deuteronomy 2:1-8

1“1Then we turned and set out for the wilderness by the way to the 2Red Sea, as the Lord spoke to me, and circled 3Mount Seir for many days. 2And the Lord spoke to me, saying, 3‘You have circled this mountain long enough. Now turn north, 4 4and command the people, saying, “You will pass through the 5territory of your brothers the sons of Esau who live in Seir; and 6they will be afraid of you. So be very careful; 5do not 7provoke them, for I will not give you any of their land, even as little as a 8footstep 9because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. 6You shall buy food from them with money so that you may eat, and you shall also purchase water from them with money so that you may drink. 7For the Lord your God has blessed you in all 10that you have done; He has known your 11wanderings through this 12great wilderness. These 13forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’

8“So we passed beyond our brothers the sons of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the 14Arabah road, away from Elath and 15from Ezion-geber. And we turned and passed through by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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Notes

1. Deuteronomy 2:1 Num 21:4 ↩
2. Deuteronomy 2:1 Lit Sea of Reeds ↩
3. Deuteronomy 2:1 Deut 1:2 ↩
4. Deuteronomy 2:4 Num 20:14-21 ↩
5. Deuteronomy 2:4 Gen 36:8 ↩
6. Deuteronomy 2:4 Ex 15:15, 16 ↩
7. Deuteronomy 2:5 Or engage in strife with ↩
8. Deuteronomy 2:5 Lit treading of a sole of a foot ↩
9. Deuteronomy 2:5 Gen 36:8; Josh 24:4 ↩
10. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit the work of your hand ↩
11. Deuteronomy 2:7 Lit goings ↩
12. Deuteronomy 2:7 Deut 1:19 ↩
13. Deuteronomy 2:7 Num 14:33, 34; 32:13; Deut 2:14 ↩
14. Deuteronomy 2:8 Deut 1:1 ↩
15. Deuteronomy 2:8 Num 33:35; 1 Kin 9:26 ↩

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