¹Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds , as Yahweh spoke to me; and we encircled Mount Seir many days.

¹Potem smo se obrnili in šli v puščavo po poti proti Rdečemu morju, kakor mi je bil velel GOSPOD, in smo dolgo časa hodili ob Seirskem gorovju.

²Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

²Tedaj me ogovori GOSPOD, rekoč:

³“You have encircled this mountain long enough. Turn northward.

³Dosti ste že hodili ob tem gorovju, krenite proti severu!

⁴Command the people, saying, ‘You are to pass through the border of your brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore;

⁴Ljudstvu pa zapovej takole: Potovali boste skozi pokrajine svojih bratov, sinov Ezavovih, ki prebivajo v Seiru, in se vas bodo bali. Ali skrbno se varujte,

⁵don’t contend with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on; because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

⁵da ne začnete boja ž njimi; zakaj njih dežele vam ne dam še za stopinjo noge ne, ker Ezavu sem dal Seirsko gorovje v lastnino.

⁶You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.’”

⁶Živeža si od njih kupite za denar, da boste jedli, tudi vode kupite od njih za denar, da boste pili.

⁷For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; he has known your walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.

⁷Zakaj GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, te je blagoslovil pri vsem delu tvojih rok; vedel je za potovanje tvoje po tej veliki puščavi, teh štirideset let je bil GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, s teboj, ničesar ti ni zmanjkalo.

⁸So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

⁸Tako smo šli mimo svojih bratov, sinov Ezavovih, prebivajočih v Seiru, strani od poti po nižini, od Elata in Ezion-geberja. In obrnili smo se in šli po poti Moabske puščave.

⁹Yahweh said to me, “Don’t bother Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give you of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for a possession.”

⁹In GOSPOD mi je rekel: Ne vedite se sovražno proti Moabcem in ne spustite se v vojno ž njimi; zakaj od njih dežele ti ne dam posesti, ker sem dal Ar sinom Lotovim v lastnino.

¹⁰(The Emim lived therein before, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim:

¹⁰(Emimi so prebivali ondi v prejšnjih časih, ljudstvo veliko, mnogoštevilno in visoke postave kakor Enakimi.

¹¹these also are accounted Rephaim, as the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.

¹¹Tudi nje so šteli za velikane kakor Enakime, in Moabci so jih imenovali Emime.

¹²The Horites also lived in Seir before, but the children of Esau succeeded them; and they destroyed them from before them, and lived in their place; as Israel did to the land of his possession, which Yahweh gave to them.)

¹²Tudi v Seiru so v prejšnjih časih prebivali Horejci, a sinovi Ezavovi so jih pregnali in zatrli pred seboj, in prebivali so na njih mestu; prav kakor so storili Izraelci deželi posestva svojega, ki jim jo je dal GOSPOD.)

¹³“Now rise up, and cross over the brook Zered.” We went over the brook Zered.

¹³Zdaj se torej vzdignite in pojdite čez potok Zered! In šli smo čez potok Zered.

¹⁴The days in which we came from Kadesh Barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, were thirty-eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Yahweh swore to them.

¹⁴Časa pa, v katerem smo šli od Kades-barnee, dokler nismo prestopili potoka Zereda, je bilo osemintrideset let; v tem času je izumrl ves rod vojščakov izmed tabora, kakor jim je bil prisegel GOSPOD.

¹⁵Moreover the hand of Yahweh was against them, to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.

¹⁵Da, roka GOSPODOVA je bila proti njim, da bi jih potrebil izmed tabora, dokler niso pomrli.

¹⁶So it happened, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

¹⁶In zgodi se, ko so bili vsi ti vojščaki iztrebljeni in so umrli izmed ljudstva,

¹⁷that Yahweh spoke to me, saying,

¹⁷da me ogovori GOSPOD, rekoč:

¹⁸“You are this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:

¹⁸Ti greš danes skozi pokrajino Moabcev, mimo Ara,

¹⁹and when you come near over against the children of Ammon, don’t bother them, nor contend with them; for I will not give you of the land of the children of Ammon for a possession; because I have given it to the children of Lot for a possession.”

¹⁹in se skoraj približaš kraju Amonovih sinov: ne vedi se sovražno proti njim ter se ne bojuj ž njimi, zakaj od dežele Amonovih sinov ti ne dam posesti, ker sem jo dal sinovom Lotovim v lastnino.

²⁰(That also is accounted a land of Rephaim: Rephaim lived therein before; but the Ammonites call them Zamzummim,

²⁰(Tudi ta se šteje za deželo velikanov; velikani so ondi prebivali v prejšnjih časih, in Amonci so jih imenovali Zamzumime;

²¹a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Yahweh destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place;

²¹bilo je ljudstvo veliko in mnogoštevilno in visoke postave kakor Enakimi; a GOSPOD jih je pokončal pred njimi, tako da so jih pregnali in se naselili na njih mestu,

²²as he did for the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, when he destroyed the Horites from before them; and they succeeded them, and lived in their place even to this day:

²²prav kakor je storil za sinove Ezavove, prebivajoče v Seiru, ko je zatrl Horejce pred njimi, in so jih ti pregnali in prebivali v njih kraju do današnjega dne.

²³and the Avvim, who lived in villages as far as Gaza, the Caphtorim, who came forth out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and lived in their place.)

²³In Avimci so prebivali v vaseh v smeri do Gaze, a Kaftorimci so prišli iz Kaftorja ter jih pokončali, in prebivali so na njih mestu.)

²⁴“Rise up, take your journey, and pass over the valley of the Arnon: behold, I have given into your hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land; begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.

²⁴Vstanite, odpravite se in pojdite čez potok Arnon! Poglej, dal sem ti v roko Sihona Amorejca, kralja v Hesbonu, in njegovo deželo: začni jo posedati in spusti se v boj ž njim.

²⁵This day will I begin to put the dread of you and the fear of you on the peoples who are under the whole sky, who shall hear the report of you, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of you.”

²⁵Danes začnem pošiljati strah in grozo pred teboj nad ljudstva pod vsem nebom, da se bodo, ko začujejo glas o tebi, tresli in trepetali pred teboj.

²⁶I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

²⁶Nato sem poslal poročnike iz Kedemotske puščave k Sihonu, kralju v Hesbonu, z mirovnimi besedami, da mu reko:

²⁷“Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

²⁷Dovoli mi, da grem skozi tvojo deželo; naravnost po cesti hočem iti, ne ganem se ne na desno, ne na levo.

²⁸You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,

²⁸Živeža mi prodaš za denar, da jem, in vode mi daš za denar, da pijem, samo mi dovoli iti peš skozi deželo,

²⁹as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.”

²⁹kakor so mi storili sinovi Ezavovi, ki prebivajo v Seiru, in Moabci, ki prebivajo v Aru; dokler ne pridem prek Jordana v deželo, ki nam jo daje GOSPOD, Bog naš.

³⁰But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.

³⁰Ali Sihon, kralj v Hesbonu, nam ni hotel dovoliti, da gremo po njegovem tja, zakaj GOSPOD, Bog tvoj, je otrdil njegovega duha in zakrknil srce njegovo, da bi ti ga izročil v pest, kakor se danes vidi.

³¹Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.”

³¹In GOSPOD mi reče: Poglej, začel sem ti izročati Sihona in deželo njegovo; začni jo posedati, da ti pride v last dežela njegova.

³²Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.

³²In pride nam nasproti Sihon z vsem ljudstvom svojim, da se z nami vojskuje v Jahazu.

³³Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.

³³A GOSPOD, Bog naš, nam ga je izročil, in porazili smo njega, sinove njegove in vse ljudstvo njegovo.

³⁴We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:

³⁴In tisti čas smo se polastili vseh njegovih mest in s prokletjem uničili vsako mesto, može, žene in otroke, nihče nam ni ubežal;

³⁵only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.

³⁵samo živino smo vzeli zase in plen iz mest, katerih smo se polastili.

³⁶From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:

³⁶Od Aroerja, ki je ob bregu potoka Arnona, in od mesta, ki je pri potoku, tja do Gileada ni bilo mesta, ki bi nam bilo nepremagljivo: vse nam je izročil GOSPOD, Bog naš.Samo k deželi Amonovih sinov se nisi približal, tudi ne k vsej strani potoka Jaboka in k mestom na gorah in k vsemu, kar nam je prepovedal GOSPOD, Bog naš.

³⁷only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn’t come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.

³⁷Samo k deželi Amonovih sinov se nisi približal, tudi ne k vsej strani potoka Jaboka in k mestom na gorah in k vsemu, kar nam je prepovedal GOSPOD, Bog naš.