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And
when
king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the
way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took
some
of them prisoners.
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And Israel vowed
a vow unto the L
ORD
, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will
utterly destroy their cities.
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And the L
ORD
hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the
Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place
Hormah.
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And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom:
and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.
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And the people spake against
God, and against Moses, Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness?
for
there is
no bread, neither
is there any
water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.
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And the
L
ORD
sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
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Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned, for we have spoken against
the L
ORD
, and against thee; pray unto the L
ORD
, that he take away the serpents from us. And Moses
prayed for the people.
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And the L
ORD
said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon
a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
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And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent
had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived.
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And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in Oboth.
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And they journeyed from
Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which
is
before Moab, toward the sunrising.
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From thence they removed, and pitched in the valley of Zared.
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From thence they removed,
and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which
is
in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of
the Amorites: for Arnon
is
the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.
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Wherefore it
is said in the book of the wars of the L
ORD
, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
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And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border
of Moab.
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And from thence
they went
to Beer: that
is
the well whereof the L
ORD
spake unto Moses,
Gather the people together, and I will give them water.
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Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it:
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The princes digged the well,
the nobles of the people digged it, by
the direction of
the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the
wilderness
they went
to Mattanah:
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And fromMattanah to Nahaliel: and fromNahaliel to Bamoth:
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And from Bamoth
in
the valley, that
is
in the country of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looketh
toward Jeshimon.
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And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,
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Let me pass through
thy land: we will not turn into the fields, or into the vineyards; we will not drink
of
the waters of
the well:
but
we will go along by the king’s
high
way, until we be past thy borders.
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And Sihon
would not suffer Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and
went out against Israel into the wilderness: and he came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.
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And
Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from Arnon unto Jabbok, even
unto the children of Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon
was
strong.
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And Israel
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