Bemiḏbar (Numbers) 21

Num 21:1 And the sovereign of Araḏ, the Kena‛anite, who dwelt in the
South, heard that Yisra’ĕl was coming on the way to Atharim, and he fought
against Yisra’ĕl and took some of them captive.
Num 21:2 Then Yisra’ĕl made a vow to יהוה, and said, “If You deliver this
people into my hand indeed, then I shall put their cities under the ban.”
Num 21:3 And יהוה listened to the voice of Yisra’ĕl and gave up the
Kena‛anites, and they put them and their cities under the ban. So the name of
that place was called Ḥormah.
Num 21:4 And they departed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Sea of
Reeds, to go around the land of Eḏom. But the being of the people grew
impatient because of the way.
Num 21:5 And the people spoke against Elohim and against Mosheh, “Why
have you brought us up out of Mitsrayim to die in the wilderness? For there
is no food and no water, and our being loathes this light bread.”
Num 21:6 And יהוה sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the
people. And many of the people of Yisra’ĕl died.
Num 21:7 Then the people came to Mosheh, and said, “We have sinned, for
we have spoken against יהוה and against you. Pray to יהוה to take away the
serpents from us.” So Mosheh prayed on behalf of the people.
Num 21:8 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a
pole. And it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall
live.”
Num 21:9 So Mosheh made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole. And it
came to be, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze
serpent, he lived.
Num 21:10 And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out and camped in Oḇoth.
Num 21:11 And they departed from Oḇoth and camped at Iyĕ Ha-Aḇarim, in
the wilderness which is east of Mo’aḇ, toward sunrise.
Num 21:12 From there they set out and camped at the wadi Zereḏ.
Num 21:13 From there they set out and camped on the other side of the
Arnon, which is in the wilderness that extends from the border of the
Amorites, for the Arnon is the border of Mo’aḇ, between Mo’aḇ and the
Amorites.
Num 21:14 Therefore it is said in the Book of the Battles of יהוה, “Wahĕḇ in
Suphah, the wadi Arnon,
Num 21:15 and the slope of the wadi that turns aside to the dwelling of Ar,
and lies on the border of Mo’aḇ.”
Num 21:16 And from there on to Be’ĕr, which is the well where יהוה said to
Mosheh, “Gather the people, and let Me give them water.”
Num 21:17 Yisra’ĕl then sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it,
Num 21:18 a well the leaders sank, which the nobles of the people dug with
their staves, by the word of the Law-giver.” Then from the wilderness on to
Mattanah,
Num 21:19 from Mattanah to Naḥali’ĕl, from Naḥali’ĕl to Bamoth,
Num 21:20 and from Bamoth, in the valley that is in the country of Mo’aḇ, to
the top of Pisgah which looks down on the wasteland.
Num 21:21 And Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to Siḥon sovereign of the
Amorites, saying,
Num 21:22 “Let me pass through your land. We shall not turn off into fields
or vineyards, we shall not drink water from wells, but go by the sovereign’s
highway until we have passed over your border.”
Num 21:23 But Siḥon would not allow Yisra’ĕl to pass through his border.
So Siḥon gathered all his people together and went out against Yisra’ĕl in the
wilderness, and he came to Yahats and fought against Yisra’ĕl.
Num 21:24 And Yisra’ĕl smote him with the edge of the sword, and took
possession of his land from the Arnon to the Yabboq, as far as the children of
Ammon, for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.
Num 21:25 And Yisra’ĕl took all these cities, and Yisra’ĕl dwelt in all the
cities of the Amorites – in Ḥeshbon and in all its villages,
Num 21:26 for Ḥeshbon was the city of Siḥon the sovereign of the Amorites,
who had fought against the former sovereign of Mo’aḇ, and had taken all his
land from his hand as far as the Arnon.
Num 21:27 That is why those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to
Ḥeshbon, let the city of Siḥon be built and established.
Num 21:28 “For fire went out from Ḥeshbon, a flame from the city of Siḥon.
It consumed Ar of Mo’aḇ, the masters of the heights of the Arnon.
Num 21:29 “Woe to you, Mo’aḇ! You have perished, O people of Kemosh!
He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Siḥon
the sovereign of the Amorites.
Num 21:30 “Then we shot them – Ḥeshbon has perished as far as Diḇon.
And we laid waste as far as Nophaḥ, which reaches to Mĕyḏeḇa.”
Num 21:31 So Yisra’ĕl dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
Num 21:32 And Mosheh sent to spy out Ya‛zĕr. And they took its villages
and drove out the Amorites who were there,
Num 21:33 and turned and went up by the way to Bashan. And Oḡ sovereign
of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Eḏre‛i.
Num 21:34 And יהוה said to Mosheh, “Do not fear him, for I have given him
into your hand, with all his people and his land. And you shall do to him as
you did to Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites, who dwelt at Ḥeshbon.”
Num 21:35 And they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until no
remnant was left to him. And they took possession of his land.