1 (27) and you murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he has brought us forth out of the land of Miżrayim, to deliver us into the hand of the Emori, to destroy us.

(28) Whither shall we go up? our brethren have made our heart faint, saying, The people are greater and taller than we; the cities are great and fortified up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the ῾Anaqim there.

(29) Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.

(30) The Lord your God who goes before you, he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Miżrayim before your eyes;

(31) and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bore thee, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went, until you came to this place.

(32) Yet in this thing you did not believe the Lord your God,

(33) who went in the way before you, to search you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way you should go, and in a cloud by day.

(34) And the Lord heard the voice of your words, and was angry, and swore, saying,

(35) Surely not one of these men of this evil generation shall see that good land, which I swore to give to your fathers,

(36) save Kalev the son of Yefunne; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he has trodden upon, and to his children, because he has wholly followed the Lord.

(37) Also the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in there.

(38) But Yehoshua the son of Nun, who stands before thee, he shall go in there: encourage him: for he shall cause Yisra᾽el to inherit it.

(39) And your little ones, concerning whom you said they should be a prey, and your children who in that day had no knowledge of good and evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

(40) But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Suf.

(41) Then you answered and said to me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And you girded on every man his weapons of war, and ventured to go up into the hill.

(42) And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Neither go up, nor fight; for I am not among you; lest you be smitten before your enemies.

(43) So I spoke to you; and you would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord, and went presumptuously up into the hill.

(44) And the Emori, who dwelt in that mountain, came out against you, and chased you, as bees do, and beat you down in Se῾ir, as far as Ḥorma.

(45) And you returned and wept before the Lord; but the Lord would not hearken to your voice, nor give ear to you.

(46) So you abode in Qadesh many days, according to the days that you abode there.

2 (1) Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Sea of Suf, as the Lord spoke to me: and we went about mount Se῾ir many days.

(2) And the Lord spoke to me, saying,

(3) You have compassed this mountain long enough: turn northwards.

(4) And command the people, saying, You are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of ῾Esav, who dwell in Se῾ir; and they shall be afraid of you: take good heed to yourselves therefore:

(5) meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given mount Se῾ir to ῾Esav for a possession.

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