¹The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

¹In ko začuje Kanaanec, kralj v Aradu, ki je prebival proti jugu, da prihaja Izrael po poti oglednikov, začne vojno z Izraelom in nekatere izmed njih odpelje ujete.

²Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”

²Tedaj se Izrael zaobljubi GOSPODU, govoreč: Ako mi daš res to ljudstvo v roko, s prokletjem razderem njegova mesta.

³Yahweh listened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

³In GOSPOD usliši glas Izraelov ter mu da Kanaance; in pokonča s prokletjem nje in njih mesta; zato so imenovali ta kraj Horma [T. j. prokletje.].

⁴They traveled from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea or, Sea of Reeds , to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

⁴In šli so od gore Hora po poti, ki vodi k Rdečemu morju, da bi obšli deželo Edomsko. In ljudstvo je postalo malosrčno na potu.

⁵The people spoke against God, and against Moses, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loathes this light bread.”

⁵In govori ljudstvo zoper Boga in zoper Mojzesa: Zakaj ste nas peljali iz Egipta, da umrjemo v puščavi? kajti tu ni kruha, ne vode; in duši naši se že studi tista prelahka jed.

⁶Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Israel died.

⁶Tedaj pošlje GOSPOD ognjene kače med ljudstvo, in so jih pikale, da jih je mnogo pomrlo iz Izraela.

⁷The people came to Moses, and said, “We have sinned, because we have spoken against Yahweh, and against you. Pray to Yahweh, that he take away the serpents from us.” Moses prayed for the people.

⁷In pride ljudstvo k Mojzesu, govoreč: Grešili smo, ko smo govorili zoper GOSPODA in zoper tebe; moli h GOSPODU, da vzame od nas kače. In Mojzes je molil za ljudstvo.

⁸Yahweh said to Moses, “Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”

⁸In GOSPOD veli Mojzesu: Naredi si ognjeno kačo in jo povzdigni na drog; in vsak, kdor je pičen in jo pogleda, bo živel.

⁹Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it on the standard: and it happened, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked to the serpent of brass, he lived.

⁹Mojzes torej naredi kačo iz brona in jo povzdigne na drog. In bilo je tako: če je koga kača pičila in ta je pogledal na bronasto kačo, je živel.

¹⁰The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.

¹⁰In odpotujejo sinovi Izraelovi in se raztabore v Obotu;

¹¹They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.

¹¹in iz Obota odrinejo in se utabore v Ije-abarimu, v puščavi, ki je pred Moabom, proti solnčnemu vzhodu.

¹²From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.

¹²Odtod odrinejo in se ušatorijo pri potoku Zeredu.

¹³From there they traveled, and encamped on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that comes out of the border of the Amorites: for the Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

¹³Ko odidejo odtod, se ušatore onkraj potoka Arnona, ki je v puščavi in prihaja iz pokrajine Amorejcev, zakaj Arnon je na meji moabski, med Moabom in Amorejci.

¹⁴Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, “Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,

¹⁴Zato se pravi v knjigi o vojskah GOSPODOVIH: Pribojevali smo Vaheb v Sufi in Arnonske doline

¹⁵the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab.”

¹⁵in strmine ob potokih, ki segajo do bivališča Ara in se naslanjajo na mejo moabsko.

¹⁶From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

¹⁶In odtod so šli v Ber, to je tisti vodnjak, o katerem je rekel GOSPOD Mojzesu: Skliči mi ljudstvo, in hočem jim dati vodo.

¹⁷Then sang Israel this song: “Spring up, well; sing to it:

¹⁷Takrat je pel Izrael to pesem: Privri, o studenec! Prepevajte mu naproti!

¹⁸the well, which the princes dug, which the nobles of the people dug, with the scepter, and with their poles.” From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah;

¹⁸Vodnjak, ki so ga knezi izkopali, ki so ga plemenitniki ljudstva zaokrožili z žezlom, s palicami svojimi. - In iz puščave so šli v Matano,

¹⁹and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

¹⁹in iz Matane v Nahaliel, in iz Nahaliela v Bamot,

²⁰and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert.

²⁰in iz Bamota v dolino, ki je na poljani Moabski, do vrha Pizge, ki strmi kvišku nad puščavo.

²¹Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

²¹In Izrael pošlje poročnike k Sihonu, kralju Amorejcev, da mu reko:

²²“Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed your border.”

²²Dovoli mi iti skozi deželo tvojo; nočemo kreniti na njive ali v vinograde, tudi ne piti vode iz vodnjakov; po kraljevi cesti pojdemo, dokler ne prestopimo tvojih mej.

²³Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

²³Toda Sihon ni pripustil Izraelu iti skozi pokrajino svojo; temuč zbere vse ljudstvo svoje in pride Izraelu nasproti v puščavo. In ko prispe v Jahaz, se vojskuje z Izraelom.

²⁴Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Jabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

²⁴A Izrael ga udari z ostrino meča in posede deželo njegovo od Arnona do Jaboka in tja do sinov Amonovih; meja sinov Amonovih je namreč bila utrjena.

²⁵Israel took all these cities: and Israel lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns.

²⁵In Izrael je zasedel vsa ta mesta in se naselil v vseh mestih Amorejcev, v Hesbonu in vseh njemu podložnih vaseh.

²⁶For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even to the Arnon.

²⁶Hesbon je namreč bilo mesto Sihona, kralja Amorejcev, ki se je bil bojeval zoper prejšnjega kralja Moabcev in mu odvzel vso pokrajino njegovo prav do Arnona.

²⁷Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

²⁷Zato pravijo pesniki: Pridite v Hesbon, naj se zgradi in postavi mesto Sihonovo!

²⁸for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon. It has devoured Ar of Moab, The lords of the high places of the Arnon.

²⁸Zakaj ogenj je prišel iz Hesbona, plamen iz mesta Sihonovega, požrl je Ar Moabcev, gospodo Arnonskih višin.

²⁹Woe to you, Moab! You are undone, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, to Sihon king of the Amorites.

²⁹Gorje tebi, Moab! Izgubljeno si, o ljudstvo Kamosovo! Ta je storil, da so sinovi njegovi ubežniki, in hčere svoje je peljal v ujetništvo k Sihonu, kralju Amorejcev!

³⁰We have shot at them. Heshbon has perished even to Dibon. We have laid waste even to Nophah, Which reaches to Medeba.”

³⁰Streljali smo nanje: Hesbon je pokončan tja do Dibona; in pustošili smo prav do Nofoha - gorelo je do Medebe!

³¹Thus Israel lived in the land of the Amorites.

³¹Tako se je nastanil Izrael v deželi Amorejcev.

³²Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.

³²In Mojzes je poslal oglednike v Jazer, in zavzeli so njemu podložne vasi ter spodili Amorejce, ki so bili ondi.

³³They turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

³³Potem so se obrnili in šli v Basan. Og pa kralj basanski, jim pride nasproti z vsem ljudstvom svojim, da napravi bitko v Edreju.

³⁴Yahweh said to Moses, “Don’t fear him: for I have delivered him into your hand, and all his people, and his land; and you shall do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived at Heshbon.”

³⁴A GOSPOD reče Mojzesu: Ne boj se ga, zakaj v roko tvojo sem dal njega, vse ljudstvo in deželo njegovo; stóri ž njim, kakor si storil s Sihonom, kraljem Amorejcev, ki je prebival v Hesbonu.Porazili so ga torej in sinove njegove in vse ljudstvo njegovo, da nihče ni preostal, in posedli so deželo njegovo.

³⁵So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.

³⁵Porazili so ga torej in sinove njegove in vse ljudstvo njegovo, da nihče ni preostal, in posedli so deželo njegovo.