021:001 The 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.
021:002 Israel vowed a vow to Yahweh, and said, If you will indeed
deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly
destroy their cities.
021:003 Yahweh 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.
021:004 They 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.
021:005 The 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.
021:006 Yahweh sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people;
and much people of Israel died.
021:007 The 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.
021:008 Yahweh said to Moses, Make you a fiery serpent, and set it on
a standard: and it shall happen, that everyone who is bitten,
when he sees it, shall live.
021:009 Moses 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.
021:010 The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in Oboth.
021:011 They traveled from Oboth, and encamped at Iyeabarim,
in the wilderness which is before Moab, toward the sunrise.
021:012 From there they traveled, and encamped in the valley of Zered.
021:013 From 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.
021:014 Therefore it is said in the book of the Wars of Yahweh, "Vaheb
in Suphah, the valleys of the Arnon,
021:015 the slope of the valleys that incline toward the dwelling of Ar,
leans on the border of Moab."
021:016 From 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.
021:017 Then sang Israel this song: "Spring up, well; sing to it:
021:018 the 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;
021:019 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;
021:020 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab,