Deuteronomy 2:9-18

9Then the Lord said to me, “Do not harass Moab and provoke them to war, for I will not give you any of their land as your territory. This is because I have given Ar to the descendants of Lot as their possession.

10(The Emites used to live there, a people as powerful, numerous, and tall as the Anakites.

11These people, as well as the Anakites, are also considered Rephaites; the Moabites call them Emites.

12Previously the Horites lived in Seir but the descendants of Esau dispossessed and destroyed them and settled in their place, just as Israel did to the land it came to possess, the land the Lord gave them.)

13Now, get up and cross the Wadi Zered.” So we did so.

14Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the Lord had vowed to them.

15Indeed, it was the very hand of the Lord that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.

16So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

17the Lord said to me,

18“Today you are going to cross the border of Moab, that is, of Ar.