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20 It was accounted a land of giants: and gi- be delivered into thy hands, as now thou seest.
ants formerly dwelt in it, whom the Ammonites 31 And the Lord said to me: Behold I have
call Zomzommims, begun to deliver unto thee Sehon and his land,
21 A people great and many, and of tall begin to possess it.
stature, like the Enacims whom the Lord de- 32 And Sehon came out to meet us with all
stroyed before their face: and he made them to his people to fight at Jasa.
dwell in their stead, 33 And the Lord our God delivered him to us:
22 As he had done in favour of the children and we slew him with his sons and all his people.
of Esau, that dwell in Seir, destroying the Hor- 34 And we took all his cities at that time,
rhites, and delivering their land to them, which killing the inhabitants of them, men and women
they possess to this day. and children. We left nothing of them:
23 The Hevites also, that dwelt in Haserim 35 Except the cattle which came to the share
as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappado- of them that took them: and the spoils of the
cians: who came out of Cappadocia, and de- cities, which we took:
stroyed them and dwelt in their stead. 36 From Aroer, which is upon the bank of the
24 Arise ye, and pass the torrent Arnon: Be- torrent Arnon, a town that is situate in a valley,
hold I have delivered into thy hand Sehon king as far as Galaad. There was not a village or
of Hesebon the Amorrhite, and begin thou to city, that escaped our hands: the Lord our God
possess his land and make war against him. delivered all unto us:
25 This day will I begin to send the dread and 37 Except the land of the children of Ammon,
fear of thee upon the nations that dwell under to which we approached not: and all that bor-
the whole heaven: that when they hear thy name der upon the torrent Jeboc, and the cities in the
they may fear and tremble, and be in pain like mountains, and all the places which the Lord our
women in travail. God forbade us.
26 So I sent messengers from the wilderness
of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with
peaceable words, saying: Chapter 3
27 We will pass through thy land, we will go
along by the highway: we will not turn aside Then we turned and went by the way of Basan:
neither to the right hand nor to the left. and Og the king of Basan came out to meet us
28 Sell us meat for money, that we may eat: with his people to fight in Edrai.
give us water for money and so we will drink. 2 And the Lord said to me: Fear him not:
We only ask that thou wilt let us pass through, because he is delivered into thy hand, with all his
29 As the children of Esau have done, that people and his land: and thou shalt do to him as
dwell in Seir, and the Moabites, that abide in thou hast done to Sehon king of the Amorrhites,
Ar: until we come to the Jordan, and pass to that dwelt in Hesebon.
the land which the Lord our God will give us. 3 So the Lord our God delivered into our
30 And Sehon the king of Hesebon would not hands, Og also, the king of Basan, and all his
let us pass: because the Lord thy God had hard- people: and we utterly destroyed them,
ened his spirit, and fixed his heart, that he might 4 Wasting all his cities at one time, there was