Bmidbar (Numbers) - Chapter 21

21:1 The Canaanite, the king of Arad, who lived in the South, heard tell that Yisrael came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Yisrael, and took some of them captive. 21:2 Yisrael vowed a vow to Mar-Yah, and said, "If you will indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities." 21:3 Mar-Yah listened to the voice of Yisrael, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

21:4 They travelled from Mount Hor by the way to the Sea of Suf, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. 21:5 The people spoke against God, and against Mosha, "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."

21:6 Mar-Yah sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many people of Yisrael died. 21:7 The people came to Mosha, and said, "We have sinned, because we have spoken against Mar-Yah, and against you. Pray to Mar-Yah, that he take away the serpents from us." Mosha prayed for the people.

21:8 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "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." 21:9 Mosha 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. 21:10 The B’nai Yisrael travelled, and encamped in Oboth. 21:11 They travelled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim, in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise. 21:12 From there they travelled, and encamped in the valley of Zered. 21:13 From there they travelled, 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. 21:14 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Mar-Yah, "Vaheb in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon, 21:15 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar, leans on the border of Moab."

21:16 From there they travelled to Beer: that is the well of which Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

21:17 Then sang Yisrael this song:

"Spring up, well; sing to it:
21:18 the well, which the princes dug,
which the nobles of the people dug,
with the sceptre, and with their poles."

From the wilderness they traveled to Mattanah; 21:19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth; 21:20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, to the top of Pisgah, which looks down on the desert. 21:21 Yisrael sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying, 21:22 "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."

21:23 Sihon would not allow Yisrael to pass through his border: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Yisrael into the wilderness, and came to Yahaz; and he fought against Yisrael. 21:24 Yisrael struck him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon to the Yabbok, even to the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong. 21:25 Yisrael took all these cities: and Yisrael lived in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all its towns. 21:26 For 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. 21:27 Therefore those who speak in proverbs say,

"Come to Heshbon.
Let the city of Sihon be built and established;
21:28 for a fire has gone out of Heshbon,
a flame from the city of Sihon.
It has devoured Ar of Moab,
lords of the high places of the Arnon.
21:29 Woe 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.
21:30 We have shot at them.
Heshbon has perished even to Dibon.
We have laid waste even to Nophah,
Which reaches to Medeba."

21:31 Thus Yisrael lived in the land of the Amorites. 21:32 Mosha sent to spy out Yazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there. 21:33 They 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.

21:34 Mar-Yah said to Mosha, "Do not 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."

21:35 So they struck him, and his sons and all his people, until there was none left him remaining: and they possessed his land.