1 At that time Qoraḥ son of Yĕtser son of Qehath son of Lĕwi, took many men of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and they rose up and disputed with Mosheh and Aharon and the whole congregation.
2 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was wroth with them, and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, with their households and all belonging to them, and all the men belonging to Qoraḥ.
3 And after this Elohim made the people go around by the way of Mount Sĕ’ir for a long time.
4 At that time 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Mosheh, “Do not provoke a battle against the children of Ĕsaw, for I will not give to you any matter belonging to them, as much as the sole of the foot could tread upon, for I have given Mount Sĕ’ir as an inheritance to Ĕsaw,”
5 because the children of Ĕsaw had fought against the children of Sĕ’ir in former times, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had delivered the children of Sĕ’ir into the hands of the children of Ĕsaw, and destroyed them from before them. And the children of Ĕsaw dwell in their place to this day.
6 Therefore 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, “Do not fight against the children of Ĕsaw your brothers, for nothing in their land belongs to you, but you may buy food from them for silver and eat it, and you may buy water from them for silver and drink it.”
7 And the children of Yisra’ĕl did according to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄.
8 And the children of Yisra’ĕl went about the wilderness, going around by the way of Mount Sinai for a long time, and did not touch the children of Ĕsaw, and they continued in that region for nineteen years.
9 At that time Latinus sovereign of the children of the Ḥittites died, in the forty-fifth year of his reign, which is the fourteenth year of the children of Yisra’el’s departure from Mitsrayim.
10 And they buried him in his place which he had built for himself in the land of the Ḥittites, and Aḇimnas reigned in his place for thirty-eight years.
11 And the children of Yisra’ĕl passed the boundary of the children of Ĕsaw in those days, at the end of nineteen years, and they came and passed by the way of the wilderness of Mo’aḇ.
12 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Mosheh, “Do not besiege Mo’aḇ, and do not fight against them, for I will give you none of their land.”
13 And the children of Yisra’ĕl passed the way of the wilderness of Mo’aḇ for nineteen years, and they did not fight against them.
14 And in the thirty-sixth year of the children of Yisra’el’s departure from Mitsrayim, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 smote the heart of Siḥon, sovereign of the Amorites, and he waged battle, and went out to fight against the children of Mo’aḇ.
15 And Siḥon sent messengers to Be’or son of Yanĕas, son of Bil’am, counsellor to the sovereign of Mitsrayim, and to Bil’am his son, to curse Mo’aḇ, in order that it might be delivered into the hand of Siḥon.
16 And the messengers went and brought Be’or son of Yanĕas, and Bil’am his son, from Pethor in Aram Naharayim. So Be’or and Bil’am his son came to the city of Siḥon and they cursed Mo’aḇ and their sovereign in the presence of Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites.
17 So Siḥon went out with his whole army, and he went to Mo’aḇ and fought against them, and he subdued them, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 delivered them into his hands. And Siḥon slew the sovereign of Mo’aḇ,
18 and Siḥon took all the cities of Mo’aḇ in battle. He also took Ḥeshbon from them, for Ḥeshbon was one of the cities of Mo’aḇ, and Siḥon placed his princes and his nobles in Ḥeshbon, and Ḥeshbon belonged to Siḥon in those days.
19 Therefore the parable was spoken: Be’or and Bil’am his son uttered these words saying, “Come to Hessian, the city of Siḥon will be built and established.
20 “Woe to you Mo’aḇ! You are lost, O people of Kemosh! See, it is written in the Book of the Torah of Elohim.”
21 And when Siḥon had conquered Mo’aḇ, he placed guards in the cities which he had taken from Mo’aḇ, and a considerable number of the children of Mo’aḇ fell in battle into the hand of Siḥon, and he made a great capture of them, sons and daughters, and he slew their sovereign. So Siḥon turned back to his own land,
22 and Siḥon gave numerous presents of silver and gold to Be’or and Bil’am his son, and he dismissed them, and they went to Aram-Naharayim to their home and country.
23 At that time all the children of Yisra’ĕl passed from the way of the wilderness of Mo’aḇ, and returned and surrounded the wilderness of Eḏom.
24 So the whole congregation came to the Wilderness of Sin in the first month of the fortieth year of their departure from Mitsrayim, and the children of Yisra’ĕl dwelt there in Qaḏĕsh, of the Wilderness of Sin, and Miryam died there and she was buried there.
25 At that time Mosheh sent messengers to Haḏaḏ sovereign of Eḏom, saying, “Thus says your brother Yisra’ĕl, please let me pass through your land. We will not pass through field or vineyard, we will not drink the water of the well, we will walk in the sovereign’s way.”
26 And Eḏom said to him, “You shall not pass through my country.” and Eḏom went out to meet the children of Yisra’ĕl with a mighty people.
27 And the children of Ĕsaw refused to let the children of Yisra’ĕl pass through their land, so the Yisra’elites turned back from them and did not fight against them.
28 For before this 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 had commanded the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “You shall not fight against the children of Ĕsaw.” Therefore the Yisra’ĕlites turned back from them and did not fight against them.
29 So the children of Yisra’ĕl departed from Qaḏĕsh, and all the people came to Mount Hor.
30 At that time 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Mosheh, “Tell your brother Aharon that he shall die there, for he shall not come to the land which I have given to the children of Yisra’ĕl.”
31 And Aharon went up, at the command of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, to Mount Hor, in the fortieth year, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.
32 And Aharon was one hundred and twenty-three years old when he died on Mount Hor.