9. Then the Lord said to me, "Do not attack the Moabites. Do not even make them angry. If you do, they will go to war against you. I will not give you any part of their land. I have given Moab to the people in the family line of Lot. I have given it to them as their own."
10. The Emites used to live there. They were strong people. There were large numbers of them. They were as tall as the Anakites.
11. Like the Anakites, they too were thought of as Rephaites. But the Moabites called them Emites.
12. The Horites used to live in Seir. But the people of Esau drove them out. They destroyed the Horites to make room for themselves. Then they settled in their territory. They did just as Israel has done in the land the Lord gave them as their own.
13. The Lord said, "Now get up. Go across the Zered Valley." So we went across it.
14. Between the time we left Kadesh Barnea and the time we went across the Zered Valley, 38 years passed. By then, all of the fighting men who had been in our camp from the beginning had died. The Lord had warned them with an oath that it would happen.
15. He used his power against them until he had gotten rid of all of them. Not one was left in the camp.
16. Finally, the last of the fighting men among the people died.
17. Then the Lord spoke to me. He said,
18. "Today you must pass near the border of Moab. Moab is also called Ar.