13. So now arise and cross over the wadi of Zered yourselves; and so we crossed the wadi of Zered.
14. Now the length of time that we had traveled from Kadesh Barnea until the time when we crossed the wadi of Zered was thirty-eight years, until the perishing of all of that generation; that is, the men of war from the midst of the camp as Yahweh had sworn to them.
15. The hand of Yahweh was against them to root them out from the midst of the camp until they perished completely.
16. “And then when all the men of war had died from among the people,
17. Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
18. ‘You are about to cross over the boundary of Moab today at Ar.
19. When you approach the border of the Ammonites, you shall not harass them, and you shall not get involved in battle with them, for I have not given the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession; because I have given it to the descendants of Lot as a possession.
20. (It is also considered the land of Rephaim; Rephaim lived in it previously, and the Ammonites called them Zamzummim,
21. a people great and numerous and as tall as the Anakites; Yahweh destroyed them from before them, and they dispossessed them and settled in place of them,
22. just as he did for the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them and dispossessed them, and then they settled in their place up to this day.
23. And also the Avvites, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, and the Caphtorim, who came out from Caphtor, destroyed them and then settled in their place.