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his sonne, and bring them vp into the mount Hor, departed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon,
26 And cause Aaron to put off his garmentes and which is in the wildernesse, and commeth out
put them vpon Eleazar his sonne: for Aaron shall of the coasts of the Amorites: (for Arnon is the
be gathered to his fathers, and shall die there. border of Moab, betweene the Moabites and the
27 And Moses did as the Lord had commanded: Amorites) 14 Wherefore it shall be spoken in the
and they went vp into the mount Hor, in the booke of the battels of the Lord, what thing he
sight of all the Congregation. 28 And Moses put did in the red sea, and in the riuers of Arnon,
off Aarons clothes, and put them vpon Eleazar 15 And at the streame of the riuers that goeth
his sonne: so Aaron dyed there in the top of the downe to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth vpon the
mount: and Moses and Eleazar came downe from border of Moab. 16 And from thence they turned
off the mount. 29 When al the Congregation sawe to Beer: the same is the well where the Lord said
that Aaron was dead, al the house of Israel wept vnto Moses, Assemble the people, and I wil giue
for Aaron thirtie dayes. them water. 17 Then Israel sang this song, Rise
The princes digged
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vp well, sing ye vnto it.
21 this well, the captaines of the people digged it,
1 When King Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt euen the lawe giuer, with their staues. And from
toward the South, heard tel that Israel came by the wildernesse they came to Mattanah, 19 And
the way of the spies, then fought hee against from Mattanah to Nahaliel, and from Nahaliel to
Israel, and tooke of them prysoners. 2 So Israel Bamoth, 20 And from Bamoth in the valley, that
vowed a vowe vnto the Lord, and said, If thou is in the plaine of Moab, to the top of Pisgah
wilt deliuer and giue this people into mine hand, that looketh toward Ieshimon. 21 Then Israel sent
then I wil vtterly destroy their cities. 3 And the messengers vnto Sihon, King of the Amorites,
Lord heard the voyce of Israel, and deliuered saying, 22 Let me goe through thy land: we wil
them the Canaanites: and they vtterly destroied not turne aside into the fieldes, nor into the vine-
them and their cities, and called ye name of the yardes, neither drinke of the waters of ye welles:
place Hormah. 4 After, they departed from the we will goe by the kings way, vntill we be past thy
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mount Hor by the way of the red Sea, to compasse countrey. But Sihon gaue Israel no licence to
the land of Edom: and the people were sore passe through his countrey, but Sihon assembled
grieued because of the way. 5 And the people all his people, and went out against Israel into
spake against God and against Moses, saying, the wildernesse: and he came to Iahoz, and
fought against Israel.
But Israel smote him with
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Wherefore haue ye brought vs out of Egypt, to the edge of the sword, and conquered his land,
die in the wildernesse? for here is neither bread from Arnon vnto Iabok, euen vnto ye children of
nor water, and our soule lotheth this light bread.
6 Wherefore the Lord sent fierie serpents among Ammon: for the border of the children of Ammon
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was strong.
And Israel tooke al these cities, and
ye people, which stung the people: so that many dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites in Heshbon
of the people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the and in all the villages thereof. 26 For Heshbon
people came to Moses and said, We haue sinned: was the citie of Sihon the king of the Amorites,
for wee haue spoken against the Lord, and against which had fought beforetime against the king of
thee: pray to the Lord, that he take away the the Moabites, and had taken al his land out of his
serpents from vs: and Moses prayed for the hand, euen vnto Arnon. 27 Wherefore they that
people. 8 And the Lord said vnto Moses, Make speake in prouerbes, say, Come to Heshbon, let
thee a fiery serpent, and set it vp for a signe, the citie of Sihon bee built and repaired: 28 For
that as many as are bitten, may looke vpon it, a fire is gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from
and liue. 9 So Moses made a serpent of brasse, the citie of Sihon, and hath consumed Ar of the
and set it vp for a signe: and when a serpent Moabites, and the lords of Bamoth in Arnon.
had bitten a man, then he looked to the serpent 29 Wo be to thee, Moab: O people of Chemosh,
of brasse, and liued. 10 And ye children of Israel thou art vndone: he hath suffered his sonnes to
departed thence, and pitched in Oboth. 11 And be pursued, and his daughters to be in captiuitie
they departed from Oboth, and pitched in lie- to Sihon the king of the Amorites. 30 Their
abarim, in the wildernesse, which is before Moab empire also is lost from Heshbon vnto Dibon, and
on the Eastside. 12 They remoued thence, and wee haue destroyed them vnto Nophah, which
pitched vpon the riuer of Zared. 13 Thence they reacheth vnto Medeba. 31 Thus Israel dwelt in