And charge the people as follows: You will be passing through the territory of your kin, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. Though they will be afraid of you, be very careful
not to provoke them. For I will not give you of their land so much as a foot can tread on; I have given the hill country of Seir as a possession to Esau.
Word-by-Word Analysis
אלתתגרו
1040
בם
42
כי
30
לאאתן
482
לכם
90
מארצם
371
עד
74
מדרך
264
כףרגל
333
כיירשה
545
לעשו
406
נתתי
860
אתהר
606
שעיר
580
Deuteronomy 2:6
Gematria: 4663
אכלתשברומאתםבכסףואכלתםוגםמיםתכרומאתםבכסףושתיתם
Or “You may obtain food from them to eat for money; and you may also procure water from them to drink for money.” What food you eat you shall obtain from them for money; even the water you drink you shall procure from them for money.
Indeed, your God יהוה has blessed you in all your undertakings. [God] has watched over your wanderings through this great wilderness; your God יהוה has been with you these past forty years: you have lacked nothing.
We then moved on, away from our kin, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the road of the Arabah, away from Elath and Ezion-geber; and we marched on in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.
And יהוה said to me: Do not harass the Moabites or provoke them to war. For I will not give you any of their land as a possession; I have assigned Ar as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויאמר
257
יהוה
26
אלי
41
אלתצר
721
אתמואב
450
ואלתתגר
1040
בם
42
מלחמה
123
כי
30
לאאתן
482
לך
50
מארצו
337
ירשה
515
כי
30
לבנילוט
137
נתתי
860
אתער
671
ירשה
515
Deuteronomy 2:10
Gematria: 1528
האמיםלפניםישבובהעםגדולורבורםכענקים
It was formerly inhabited by the Emim, a people great and numerous, and as tall as the Anakites.
Word-by-Word Analysis
האמים
96
לפנים
210
ישבו
318
בה
7
עם
110
גדול
43
ורב
208
ורם
246
כענקים
290
Deuteronomy 2:11
Gematria: 1660
רפאיםיחשבואףהםכענקיםוהמאביםיקראולהםאמים
Like the Anakites, they are counted as Rephaim; but the Moabites call them Emim.
Similarly, Seir was formerly inhabited by the Horites; but the descendants of Esau dispossessed them, wiping them out and settling in their place, just as Israel did in the land they were to possess, which יהוה had given to them.—
Word-by-Word Analysis
ובשעיר
588
ישבו
318
החרים
263
לפנים
210
ובני
68
עשו
376
יירשום
566
וישמידום
416
מפניהם
225
וישבו
324
תחתם
848
כאשר
521
עשה
375
ישראל
541
לארץ
321
ירשתו
916
אשרנתן
1001
יהוה
26
להם
75
Deuteronomy 2:13
Gematria: 2723
עתהקמוועברולכםאתנחלזרדונעבראתנחלזרד
Up now! Cross the wadi Zered! So we crossed the wadi Zered.
The time that we spent in travel from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, until that whole generation of warriors had perished from the camp, as יהוה had sworn concerning them.
Word-by-Word Analysis
והימים
111
אשרהלכנו
612
מקדש
444
ברנע
322
עד
74
אשרעברנו
829
אתנחל
489
זרד
211
שלשים
680
ושמנה
401
שנה
355
עדתם
514
כלהדור
265
אנשי
361
המלחמה
128
מקרב
342
המחנה
108
כאשר
521
נשבע
422
יהוה
26
להם
75
Deuteronomy 2:15
Gematria: 1670
וגםידיהוההיתהבםלהמםמקרבהמחנהעדתמם
Indeed, the hand of יהוה struck them, to root them out from the camp until they were finished off.
Word-by-Word Analysis
וגם
49
ידיהוה
40
היתה
420
בם
42
להמם
115
מקרב
342
המחנה
108
עד
74
תמם
480
Deuteronomy 2:16
Gematria: 2530
ויהיכאשרתמוכלאנשיהמלחמהלמותמקרבהעםס
When all the warriors among the people had died off,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ויהי
31
כאשרתמו
967
כלאנשי
411
המלחמה
128
למות
476
מקרב
342
העםס
175
Deuteronomy 2:17
Gematria: 560
וידבריהוהאלילאמר
יהוה spoke to me, saying:
Word-by-Word Analysis
וידבר
222
יהוה
26
אלי
41
לאמר
271
Deuteronomy 2:18
Gematria: 1901
אתהעברהיוםאתגבולמואבאתער
You are now passing through the territory of Moab, through Ar.
You will then be close to the Ammonites; do not harass them or start a fight with them. For I will not give any part of the land of the Ammonites to you as a possession; I have assigned it as a possession to the descendants of Lot.—
as [God] did for the descendants of Esau who live in Seir, by wiping out the Horites before them, so that they dispossessed them and settled in their place, as is still the case. ”
So, too, with the Avvim who dwelt in villages in the vicinity of Gaza: the Caphtorim, who came from Crete, Crete Heb. “Caphtor.” wiped them out and settled in their place.—
Up! Set out across the wadi Arnon! See, I give into your power Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land. Begin the occupation: engage him in battle.
This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples everywhere under heaven, so that they shall tremble and quake because of you whenever they hear you mentioned.
Word-by-Word Analysis
היום
61
הזה
17
אחל
39
תת
800
פחדך
112
ויראתך
637
עלפני
240
העמים
165
תחת
808
כלהשמים
445
אשר
501
ישמעון
476
שמעך
430
ורגזו
222
וחלו
50
מפניך
200
Deuteronomy 2:26
Gematria: 2806
ואשלחמלאכיםממדברקדמותאלסיחוןמלךחשבוןדברישלוםלאמר
Then I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace, as follows,
Word-by-Word Analysis
ואשלח
345
מלאכים
141
ממדבר
286
קדמות
550
אלסיחון
165
מלך
90
חשבון
366
דברי
216
שלום
376
לאמר
271
Deuteronomy 2:27
Gematria: 1885
אעברהבארצךבדרךבדרךאלךלאאסורימיןושמאול
“Let me pass through your country. I will keep strictly to the highway, turning off neither to the right nor to the left.
as the descendants of Esau who dwell in Seir did for me, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar—that I may cross the Jordan into the land that our God יהוה is giving us.”
But King Sihon of Heshbon refused to let us pass through, because יהוה had stiffened his will and hardened his heart in order to deliver him into your power—as is now the case.
At that time we captured all his towns, and we doomed doomed I.e., placed under ḥerem, which meant the annihilation of the population. Cf. note at Num. 21.2; Josh. 6.24. every town—men, women, and children men, women, and children (So NJPS.) Or “combatants, women, and other noncombatants.” Cf. Gen. 34.30; Num. 31.9–18. —leaving no survivor.
Word-by-Word Analysis
ונלכד
110
אתכלעריו
737
בעת
472
ההוא
17
ונחרם
304
אתכלעיר
731
מתם
480
והנשים
411
והטף
100
לא
31
השארנו
562
שריד
514
Deuteronomy 2:35
Gematria: 1817
רקהבהמהבזזנולנוושללהעריםאשרלכדנו
We retained as booty only the cattle and the spoil of the cities that we captured.
From Aroer on the edge of the Arnon valley, including the town including the town Force of Heb. we-ha‘ir uncertain. in the valley itself, to Gilead, not a city was too mighty for us; our God יהוה delivered everything to us.
But you did not encroach upon the land of the Ammonites, all along the wadi Jabbok and the towns of the hill country, just as our God יהוה had commanded.