¹ `And we turn, and journey into the wilderness, the way of the Red Sea, as Jehovah hath spoken unto me, and we go round the mount of Seir many days.

² `And Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

³ Enough to you -- is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.

⁴ `And the people command thou, saying, Ye are passing over into the border of your brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, and they are afraid of you; and ye have been very watchful,

⁵ ye do not strive with them, for I do not give to you of their land even the treading of the sole of a foot; for a possession to Esau I have given mount Seir.

⁶ `Food ye buy from them with money, and have eaten; and also water ye buy from them with money, and have drunk,

⁷ for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; Jehovah thy God [is] with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.

⁸ `And we pass by from our brethren, sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, by the way of the plain, by Elath, and by Ezion-Gaber; and we turn, and pass over the way of the wilderness of Moab;

⁹ and Jehovah saith unto me, Do not distress Moab, nor stir thyself up against them [in] battle, for I do not give to thee of their land [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given Ar [for] a possession.'

¹⁰ `The Emim formerly have dwelt in it, a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim;

¹¹ Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.

¹² And in Seir have the Horim dwelt formerly; and the sons of Esau dispossess them, and destroy them from before them, and dwell in their stead, as Israel hath done to the land of his possession, which Jehovah hath given to them;

¹³ now, rise ye, and pass over for yourselves the brook Zered; and we pass over the brook Zered.

¹⁴ `And the days which we have walked from Kadesh-Barnea until that we have passed over the brook Zered, [are] thirty and eight years, till the consumption of all the generation of the men of battle from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah hath sworn to them;

¹⁵ and also the hand of Jehovah hath been against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, till they are consumed.

¹⁶ `And it cometh to pass, when all the men of battle have finished dying from the midst of the people,

¹⁷ that Jehovah speaketh unto me, saying,

¹⁸ Thou art passing over to-day the border of Moab, even Ar,

¹⁹ and thou hast come near over-against the sons of Ammon, thou dost not distress them, nor stir up thyself against them, for I do not give [any] of the land of the sons of Ammon to thee [for] a possession; for to the sons of Lot I have given it [for] a possession.

²⁰ `A land of Rephaim it is reckoned, even it; Rephaim dwelt in it formerly, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;

²¹ a people great, and numerous, and tall, as the Anakim, and Jehovah destroyeth them before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead,

²² as He hath done for the sons of Esau, who are dwelling in Seir, when He destroyed the Horim from before them, and they dispossess them, and dwell in their stead, unto this day.

²³ `As to the Avim who are dwelling in Hazerim unto Azzah, the Caphtorim -- who are coming out from Caphtor -- have destroyed them, and dwell in their stead.

²⁴ `Rise ye, journey and pass over the brook Arnon; see, I have given into thy hand Sihon king of Heshbon, the Amorite, and his land; begin to possess, and stir up thyself against him [in] battle.

²⁵ This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.

²⁶ `And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon, -- words of peace -- saying,

²⁷ Let me pass over through thy land; in the several ways I go; I turn not aside -- right or left --

²⁸ food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten; and water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk; only, let me pass over on my feet, --

²⁹ as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me -- till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

³⁰ `And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

³¹ `And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess -- to possess his land.

³² `And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz;

³³ and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people;

³⁴ and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants -- we have not left a remnant;

³⁵ only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

³⁶ `From Aroer, which [is] by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which [is] by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which [is] too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.

³⁷ `Only, unto the land of the sons of Ammon thou hast not drawn near, any part of the brook Jabbok, and cities of the hill-country, and anything which Jehovah our God hath [not] commanded.

¹ And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first of the second month, in the second year of their going out of the land of Egypt, saying:

² `Take ye up the sum of all the company of the sons of Israel by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names -- every male by their polls;

³ from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel, ye do number them by their hosts, thou and Aaron;

⁴ and with you there is a man for a tribe, each is a head to the house of his fathers.

⁵ `And these [are] the names of the men who stand with you: `For Reuben -- Elizur son of Shedeur.

⁶ `For Simeon -- Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai.

⁷ `For Judah -- Nahshon son of Amminadab.

⁸ `For Issachar -- Nathaneel son of Zuar.

⁹ `For Zebulun -- Eliab son of Helon.

¹⁰ `For the sons of Joseph -- for Ephraim: Elishama son of Ammihud: for Manasseh -- Gamaliel son of Pedahzur.

¹¹ `For Benjamin -- Abidan son of Gideoni.

¹² `For Dan -- Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai.

¹³ `For Asher -- Pagiel son of Ocran.

¹⁴ `For Gad -- Eliasaph son of Deuel.

¹⁵ `For Naphtali -- Ahira son of Enan.'

¹⁶ These [are] those called of the company, princes of the tribes of their fathers; they [are] heads of the thousands of Israel.

¹⁷ And Moses taketh -- Aaron also -- these men, who were defined by name,

¹⁸ and all the company they assembled on the first of the second month, and they declare their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names from a son of twenty years and upward, by their polls,

¹⁹ as Jehovah hath commanded Moses; and he numbereth them in the wilderness of Sinai.

²⁰ And the sons of Reuben, Israel's first-born -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²¹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

²² Of the sons of Simeon -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, its numbered ones in the number of names, by their polls, every male from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²³ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Simeon, [are] nine and fifty thousand and three hundred.

²⁴ Of the sons of Gad -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁵ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Gad, [are] five and forty thousand and six hundred and fifty.

²⁶ Of the sons of Judah -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁷ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Judah, [are] four and seventy thousand and six hundred.

²⁸ Of the sons of Issachar -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

²⁹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Issachar, [are] four and fifty thousand and four hundred.

³⁰ Of the sons of Zebulun -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³¹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Zebulun, [are] seven and fifty thousand and four hundred.

³² Of the sons of Joseph -- of the sons of Ephraim -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³³ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Ephraim, [are] forty thousand and five hundred.

³⁴ Of the sons of Manasseh -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁵ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Manasseh, [are] two and thirty thousand and two hundred.

³⁶ Of the sons of Benjamin -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁷ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Benjamin, [are] five and thirty thousand and four hundred.

³⁸ Of the sons of Dan -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

³⁹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Dan, [are] two and sixty thousand and seven hundred.

⁴⁰ Of the sons of Asher -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

⁴¹ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Asher, [are] one and forty thousand and five hundred.

⁴² [Of] the sons of Naphtali -- their births, by their families, by the house of their fathers, in the number of names, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host --

⁴³ their numbered ones, for the tribe of Naphtali, [are] three and fifty thousand and four hundred.

⁴⁴ These [are] those numbered, whom Moses numbered -- Aaron also, and the princes of Israel, twelve men -- each for the house of his fathers, they have been.

⁴⁵ And they are, all those numbered of the sons of Israel, by the house of their fathers, from a son of twenty years and upward, every one going out to the host in Israel,

⁴⁶ yea, all those numbered are six hundred thousand, and three thousand, and five hundred and fifty.

⁴⁷ And the Levites, for the tribe of their fathers, have not numbered themselves in their midst,

⁴⁸ seeing Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

⁴⁹ `Only, the tribe of Levi thou dost not number, and their sum thou dost not take up in the midst of the sons of Israel;

⁵⁰ and thou, appoint the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all its vessels, and over all that it hath; they bear the tabernacle, and all its vessels, and they serve it; and round about the tabernacle they encamp.

⁵¹ `And in the journeying of the tabernacle, the Levites take it down, and in the encamping of the tabernacle, the Levites raise it up; and the stranger who is coming near is put to death.'

⁵² And the sons of Israel have encamped, each by his camp, and each by his standard, by their hosts;

⁵³ and the Levites encamp round about the tabernacle of the testimony; and there is no wrath on the company of the sons of Israel, and the Levites have kept the charge of the tabernacle of the testimony.

⁵⁴ And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have done.