1 And sovereign Arad the Kena’anite, who dwelt in the Negeḇ, heard that the Yisra’ĕlites had come by the way of Atharim, and he arrayed his armies to fight against the Yisra’ĕlites.
2 And the children of Yisra’ĕl were greatly afraid of him, for he had a great and numerous army, so the children of Yisra’ĕl resolved to return to Mitsrayim.
3 And the children of Yisra’ĕl turned back about the distance of three days’ journey to Ma’arath Benĕi Ya’aqan, for they were greatly afraid because of the sovereign Araḏ.
4 And the children of Yisra’ĕl would not go back to their places, so they remained in Benĕi Ya’aqan for thirty days.
5 And when the children of Lĕwi saw that the children of Yisra’ĕl would not turn back, they were jealous for the sake of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and they rose up and fought against the Yisra’ĕlites their brothers, and slew of them a great body, and forced them to turn back to their place, Mount Hor.
6 And when they returned, sovereign Araḏ was still arranging his army for battle against the Yisra’ĕlites.
7 And Yisra’ĕl vowed a vow, saying, “If You will deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.”
8 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 listened to the voice of Yisra’ĕl, and He delivered the Kena’anites into their hand, and He utterly destroyed them and their cities, and He called the name of the place Ḥormah.
9 And the children of Yisra’ĕl journeyed from Mount Hor and pitched in Oḇoth, and they journeyed from Oḇoth and they pitched at lyĕ ha’Aḇarim, on the border of Mo’aḇ.
10 And the children of Yisra’ĕl sent to Mo’aḇ, saying, “Let us pass now through your land into our place.” But the children of Mo’aḇ would not allow the children of Yisra’ĕl to pass through their land, for the children of Mo’aḇ were greatly afraid lest the children of Yisra’ĕl should do to them as Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites had done to them, who had taken their land and had slain many of them.
11 Therefore Mo’aḇ would not allow the Yisra’ĕlites to pass through his land, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 commanded the children of Yisra’ĕl, saying, “You do not fight against Mo’aḇ.” So the Yisra’ĕlites turned back from Mo’aḇ.
12 And the children of Yisra’ĕl journeyed from the border of Mo’aḇ, and they came to the other side of Arnon, the border of Mo’aḇ, between Mo’aḇ and the Amorites, and they camped on the border of Siḥon, sovereign of the Amorites, in the wilderness of Qeḏĕmoth.
13 And the children of Yisra’ĕl sent messengers to Siḥon, sovereign of the Amorites, saying,
14 “Let us pass through your land. We will not turn into the fields or into the vineyards, we will go along by the sovereign’s highway until we have passed your border.” But Siḥon would not allow the Yisra’ĕlites to pass.
15 So Siḥon collected all the people of the Amorites and went out into the wilderness to meet the children of Yisra’ĕl, and he fought against Yisra’ĕl in Yahats.
16 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 delivered Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites into the hand of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and Yisra’ĕl smote all the people of Siḥon with the edge of the sword and avenged the cause of Mo’aḇ.
17 And the children of Yisra’ĕl took possession of the land of Siḥon from Aram to Yabboq, to the children of Ammon, and they took all the spoil of the cities.
18 And Yisra’ĕl took all these cities, and Yisra’ĕl dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites.
19 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl resolved to fight against the children of Ammon, to take their land also.
20 So 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, “Do not besiege the children of Ammon, neither stir up battle against them, for I will give none of their land to you.” And the children of Yisra’ĕl listened to the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, and did not fight against the children of Ammon.
21 And the children of Yisra’ĕl turned and went up by the way of Bashan to the land of Oḡ, sovereign of Bashan. And Oḡ the sovereign of Bashan went out to meet the Yisra’ĕlites in battle, and he had with him many mighty men, and a very strong army from the people of the Amorites.
22 And Oḡ sovereign of Bashan was a very powerful man, but Na’aran his son was exceedingly powerful, even stronger than he was.
23 And Oḡ said in his heart, “See now the whole camp of Yisra’ĕl takes up a space of three parsa, now I will smite them at once without sword or spear.”
24 And Oḡ went up Mount Yahats, and took from there one large stone, the length of which was three parsa, and he placed it on his head, and resolved to throw it onto the camp of the children of Yisra’ĕl, to smite all the Yisra’elites with that stone.
25 And the messenger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 came and struck the stone on the head of Oḡ, and the stone fell on the neck of Oḡ so that Oḡ fell to the earth because of the weight of the stone upon his neck.
26 At that time 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to the children of Yisra’ĕl, “Do not be afraid of him, for I have given him and all his people and all his land into your hand, and you shall do to him as you did to Siḥon.”
27 And Mosheh went down to him with a small number of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and Mosheh smote Oḡ with a rod at the ankles of his feet and slew him.
28 After this the children of Yisra’ĕl pursued the children of Oḡ and all his people, and they beat and destroyed them till there was no remnant left of them.
29 Mosheh afterward sent some of the children of Yisra’ĕl to spy out Ya’zĕr, for Ya’zĕr was a city of name.
30 And the spies went to Ya’zĕr and spied it out, and the spies trusted in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 and they fought against the men of Ya’zĕr.
31 And these men took Ya’zĕr and its villages, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 delivered them into their hand, and they drove out the Amorites who had been there.
32 And the children of Yisra’ĕl took the land of the two sovereigns of the Amorites, sixty cities which were on the other side of Yardĕn, from the wadi of Arnon to Mount Ḥermon.
33 And the children of Yisra’ĕl journeyed and came into the plain of Mo’aḇ which is on the side of Yardĕn, by Yeriḥo.
34 And the children of Mo’aḇ heard all the evil which the children of Yisra’ĕl had done to the two sovereigns of the Amorites, to Siḥon and Oḡ, so all the men of Mo’aḇ were greatly afraid of the Yisra’elites.
35 And the elders of Mo’aḇ said, “Look, the two sovereigns of the Amorites, Siḥon and Oḡ, who were more powerful than all the sovereigns of the earth, could not stand against the children of Yisra’ĕl, how then can we stand before them?
36 “Indeed they sent us a message before now to pass through our land on their way, and we would not allow them, now they will turn on us with their heavy swords and destroy us!” And Mo’aḇ was distressed because of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and they were greatly afraid of them, and they counselled together what was to be done to the children of Yisra’ĕl.
37 And the elders of Mo’aḇ resolved and took one of their men, Balaq son of Tsippor the Mo’abite, and made him sovereign over them at that time, and Balaq was a very wise man.
38 And the elders of Mo’aḇ rose up and sent to the children of Miḏyan to make peace with them, for a great battle and enmity had been in those days between Mo’aḇ and Miḏyan, from the days of Haḏaḏ son of Beḏaḏ sovereign of Eḏom, who smote Miḏyan in the field of Mo’aḇ, unto these days.
39 And the children of Mo’aḇ sent to the children of Miḏyan, and they made peace with them, and the elders of Miḏyan came to the land of Mo’aḇ to make peace on behalf of the children of Miḏyan.
40 And the elders of Mo’aḇ counselled with the elders of Miḏyan what to do in order to save their lives from Yisra’ĕl.
41 And all the children of Mo’aḇ said to the elders of Miḏyan, “Now therefore the children of Yisra’ĕl lick up all that are around about us, as the ox licks up the grass of the field, for thus they did to the two sovereigns of the Amorites who are stronger than we are.”
42 And the elders of Miḏyan said to Mo’aḇ, “We have heard that at the time when Siḥon sovereign of the Amorites fought against you, when he prevailed over you and took your land, he had sent to Be’or son of Yanĕas and to Bil’am his son from Aram-Naharayim, and they came and cursed you; that is why the hand of Siḥon prevailed over you, so that he took your land.
43 “Now therefore you send also to Bil’am his son, for he still remains in his land, and give him his payment, that he may come and curse all the people of whom you are afraid.” So the elders of Mo’aḇ heard this word, and it pleased them to send to Bil’am son of Be’or.
44 So Balaq son of Tsippor sovereign of Mo’aḇ sent messengers to Bil’am, saying,
45 “Look there is a people come out from Mitsrayim, see, they cover the face of the earth, and they are settling next to me!
46 “Now therefore come and curse this people for me, for they are too mighty for me. Maybe I shall prevail to fight against them, and drive them out, for I heard that he whom you baraḵ is baruḵ, and whom you curse is cursed.”
47 So the messengers of Balaq went to Bil’am and brought Bil’am to curse the people to fight against Mo’aḇ.
48 And Bil’am came to Balaq to curse Yisra’ĕl, and 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 said to Bil’am, “Do not curse this people for it is baruḵ.”
49 And Balaq urged Bil’am day by day to curse Yisra’ĕl, but Bil’am did not listen to Balaq because of the word of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 which He had spoken to Bil’am.
50 And when Balaq saw that Bil’am would not do according to his desire, he rose up and went home, and Bil’am also returned to his land and he went from there to Miḏyan.
51 And the children of Yisra’ĕl journeyed from the plain of Mo’aḇ, and camped by the Yardĕn from Beyt Yeshimoth even to Aḇĕl ha’Shittim, at the end of the plains of Mo’aḇ.
52 And when the children of Yisra’ĕl dwelt in the plain of Shittim, they began to commit whoring with the daughters of Mo’aḇ.
53 And the children of Yisra’ĕl approached Mo’aḇ, and the children of Mo’aḇ pitched their tents opposite to the camp of the children of Yisra’ĕl.
54 But the children of Mo’aḇ were afraid of the children of Yisra’ĕl, and the children of Mo’aḇ took all their daughters and their wives of good looks and lovely appearance, and dressed them in gold and silver and costly garments.
55 And the children of Mo’aḇ seated those women at the door of their tents, in order that the children of Yisra’ĕl might see them and turn to them, and not fight against Mo’aḇ.
56 And all the children of Mo’aḇ did this matter to the children of Yisra’ĕl, and every man placed his wife and daughter at the door of his tent, and all the children of Yisra’ĕl saw the act of the children of Mo’aḇ, and the children of Yisra’ĕl turned to the daughters of Mo’aḇ and coveted them, and they went to them.
57 And it came to be that when an Iḇri came to the door of the tent of Mo’aḇ, and saw a daughter of Mo’aḇ and desired her in his heart, and spoke with her at the door of the tent that which he desired, while they were speaking together the men of the tent would come out and speak to the Iḇri words such as these:
58 “Indeed you know that we are brothers, we are all the descendants of Lot and the descendants of Aḇraham his brother, why then will you not remain with us, and why will you not eat our bread and our offering?”
59 And when the children of Mo’aḇ had thus overwhelmed him with their speeches, and enticed him by their flattering words, they seated him in the tent and cooked and offered for him, and he ate of their offering and of their bread.
60 They then gave him wine and he drank and became drunk, and they placed before him a good-looking maiden, and he did with her as he pleased, for he did not know what he was doing, as he had drunk plentifully of wine.
61 Thus the children of Mo’aḇ did to Yisra’ĕl in that place, in the plain of Shittim. And the wrath of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 was kindled against Yisra’ĕl because of this matter, and He sent a pestilence among them, and there died of the Yisra’ĕlites twenty-four thousand men.
62 Now there was a man of the children of Shim’on whose name was Zimri, son of Salu, who joined himself with the Miḏyanite Kozbi, the daughter of Tsur, sovereign of Miḏyan, in the sight of all the children of Yisra’ĕl.
63 And Pineḥas son of El’azar, son of Aharon the kohĕn, saw this wicked matter which Zimri had done, and he took a spear and rose up and went after them, and pierced them both and slew them, and the pestilence ceased from the children of Yisra’ĕl.