1 O cananeu, rei de Arade, que habitava no Neguebe, ouviu que Israel vinha pelo caminho dos atarins; pelejou contra Israel, e levou alguns deles cativos.
2 Então Israel fez um voto a Jeová, dizendo: Se na verdade entregares este povo nas minhas mãos, destruirei totalmente as suas cidades.
3 Jeová escutou a voz de Israel, e entregou-lhe os cananeus. Os israelitas os destruíram totalmente a eles e às suas cidades; e chamou-se o lugar Hormá.
4 Então partiram do monte Hor pelo caminho que vai ao mar Vermelho, para rodearem a terra de Edom; e a alma do povo tornou-se impaciente por causa do caminho.
5 Falou o povo contra Deus e contra Moisés: Por que nos fizestes subir do Egito para morrermos no deserto? pois não há pão e não há água; e a nossa alma tem fastio deste miserável pão.
6 Enviou Jeová entre o povo serpentes abrasadoras que mordiam o povo; e morreram muitos do povo de Israel.
7 Veio o povo a Moisés, e disse: Pecamos, porque temos falado contra Jeová e contra ti; ora a Jeová que tire de nós as serpentes. Orou Moisés pelo povo.
8 Disse Jeová a Moisés: Faze-te uma serpente abrasadora, e põe-na sobre uma haste; e todo o que for mordido, olhando para ela, viverá.
9 Fez Moisés uma serpente abrasadora, e pô-la sobre uma haste; se alguém era mordido por uma serpente, quando olhava para a serpente de cobre, vivia.
10 Tendo partido os filhos de Israel, acamparam-se em Obote.
11 Depois partiram de Obote, e se acamparam em Ijé-Abarim, no deserto que está defronte de Moabe, para o nascente.
12 Dali partiram e se acamparam no vale de Zerede.
13 Tendo partido dali, acamparam-se além de Arnom, que é no deserto que se estende do território dos amorreus; porque Arnom é o termo de Moabe, entre Moabe e os amorreus.
14 Pelo que se diz no livro das Guerras de Jeová: Vaebe em Sufá, E os vales de Arnom,
15 E o declive dos vales Que se inclina para a situação de Ar, E se encosta aos termos de Moabe.
16 Dali partiram para Beer; esse é o poço, de que disse Jeová a Moisés: Ajunta o povo, e lhe darei água.
17 Então cantou Israel este cântico: Brota, ó poço! entoai-lhe cânticos!
18 Ao poço, que os príncipes cavaram, Que os nobres do povo abriram, Com o cetro, com os seus bordões. Do deserto partiram para Mataná;
19 de Mataná para Naaliel; de Naaliel para Bamote;
20 e de Bamote para o vale que está no campo de Moabe, para o cume de Pisga, que olha para Jesimom.
21 Então enviou Israel mensageiros a Seom, rei dos amorreus, a dizer-lhe:
22 Deixa-me passar pela tua terra: não nos desviaremos para os campos, nem para as vinhas, não beberemos a água dos poços; iremos pela estrada real até que tenhamos passado além do teu território.
23 Seom não deixou passar a Israel pelo seu território; mas reuniu a todo o seu povo, e saiu ao encontro de Israel no deserto, veio a Jaza, e pelejou contra Israel.
24 Israel o feriu ao fio da espada, e fez-se senhor da terra dele desde Arnom até Jaboque, até os filhos de Amom; pois o termo dos filhos de Amom era fortificado.
25 Israel tomou todas estas cidades, e habitou em todas as cidades dos amorreus, em Hesbom, e em todas as suas vilas.
26 Porque Hesbom era a cidade de Seom, rei dos amorreus, que pelejara contra o precedente rei de Moabe, e tomara da mão dele toda a sua terra, até Arnom.
27 Pelo que dizem os recitadores de poemas: Vinde a Hesbom! Edifique-se e estabeleça-se a cidade de Seom!
28 Porque fogo saiu de Hesbom, Uma chama da cidade de Seom; Devorou a Ar de Moabe, Os senhores dos altos de Arnom.
29 Ai de ti, Moabe! Perdido estás, povo de Camos: Entregou seus filhos como fugitivos, E suas filhas como cativas, A Seom, rei dos amorreus.
30 Nós os asseteamos; está destruída Hesbom até Dibom, E os assolamos até Nofá, que se estende até Medeba.
31 Assim habitou Israel na terra dos amorreus.
32 Mandou Moisés espiar a Jazer, e tomaram as suas aldeias e expulsaram aos amorreus que se achavam ali.
33 Então voltaram e subiram pelo caminho de Basã. Ogue, rei de Basã, saiu- lhes ao encontro, ele e todo o seu povo, para lhes dar batalha em Edrei.
34 Disse Jeová a Moisés: Não o temas, porque em tua mão o entreguei a ele, e a todo o seu povo, e à sua terra; far-lhe-ás como fizeste a Seom, rei dos amorreus, que habitava em Hesbom.
35 Feriram-no, pois, a ele, e a seus filhos, e a todo o seu povo, até que nenhum lhes ficou restando; e apossaram-se da terra dele.
1 And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.
2 Then Israel made an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give up this people into my hands, then I will send complete destruction on all their towns.
3 And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.
4 Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.
5 And crying out against God and against Moses, they said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to come to our death in the waste land? For there is no bread and no water, and this poor bread is disgusting to us.
6 Then the Lord sent poison-snakes among the people; and their bites were a cause of death to numbers of the people of Israel.
7 Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.
8 And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.
9 So Moses made a snake of brass and put it on a rod; and anyone who had a snakebite, after looking on the snake of brass, was made well.
10 Then the children of Israel went on and put up their tents in Oboth.
11 And journeying on again from Oboth, they put up their tents in Iye-abarim, in the waste land before Moab looking east.
12 And moving on from there, they put up their tents in the valley of Zered.
13 From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:
14 As it says in the book of the Wars of the Lord, Vaheb in Suphah, and the valley of the Amon;
15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.
16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.
17 Then Israel gave voice to this song: Come up, O water-spring, let us make a song to it:
18 The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:
19 And from Mattanah to Nahaliel: and from Nahaliel to Bamoth:
20 And from Bamoth to the valley in the open country of Moab, and to the top of Pisgah looking over Jeshimon.
21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,
22 Let me go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway till we have gone past the limits of your land.
23 And Sihon would not let Israel go through his land; but got all his people together and went out against Israel into the waste land, as far as Jahaz, to make war on Israel.
24 But Israel overcame him, and took all his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, as far as the country of the children of Ammon, for the country of the children of Ammon was strongly armed.
25 And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.
26 For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.
27 So the makers of wise sayings say, Come to Heshbon, building up the town of Sihon and making it strong:
28 For a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon: for the destruction of Ar in Moab, and the lords of the high places of the Arnon.
29 Sorrow is yours, O Moab! Destruction is your fate, O people of Chemosh: his sons have gone in flight, and his daughters are prisoners, in the hands of Sihon, king of the Amorites.
30 They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.
31 So Israel put up their tents in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent men secretly to Jazer, and they took its towns, driving out the Amorites who were living there.
33 Then turning they went up by the way of Bashan; and Og, king of Bashan, went out against them with all his people, to the fight at Edrei.
34 And the Lord said to Moses, Have no fear of him: for I have given him up into your hands, with all his people and his land; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, at Heshbon.
35 So they overcame him and his sons and his people, driving them all out: and they took his land for their heritage.