Chapter 85
tamia, so Beor and Balaam his son came to the city of Sihon and they cursed Moab and their king in the presence of Sihon king of the Amorites.
17. So Sihon went out with his whole army, and he went to Moab and fought against them, and he subdued them, and the Lord delivered them into his hands, and Sihon slew the king of Moab.
18. And Sihon took all the cities of Moab in the battle; he also took Heshbon from them, for Heshbon was one of the cities of Moab, and Sihon placed his princes and his nobles in Heshbon, and Heshbon belonged to Sihon in those days.
19. Therefore, the parable speakers Beor and Balaam his son uttered these words, saying: Come unto Heshbon, the city of Sihon will be built and established.
20. Woe unto thee Moab! Thou art lost, O people of Kemosh! Behold, it is written upon the book of the law of God.
21. And when Sihon had conquered Moab, he placed guards in the cities he had taken from Moab, and a considerable number of the children of Moab fell in battle into the hand of Sihon, and he made a great capture of them, sons and daughters, and he slew their king; so Sihon turned back to his own land.
22. And Sihon gave numerous presents of silver and gold to Beor and Balaam his son, and he dismissed them, and they went to Mesopotamia to their home and country.
23. At that time all the children of Israel passed from the road of the wilderness of Moab, and returned and surrounded the wilderness of Edom.
24. So the whole congregation came to the wilderness of Sin in the first month of the fortieth year from their departure from Egypt, and the children of Israel dwelt there in Kadesh, in the wilderness of Sin, and Miriam died there and she was buried there.
25. At that time Moses sent messengers to king Hadad of Edom, saying, thus says thy brother Israel, let me pass I pray thee through thy land, we will not pass through field or vine yard, we will not drink the water of the well; we will walk on the king's road.
26. And Edom said to him, thou shalt not pass through, and Edom went forth to meet the children of Israel with a mighty people.
27. And the children of Esau refused to let the children of Israel pass through their land, so the Israelites removed from them, and fought not against them,
28. because in earlier time the Lord had commanded the children of Israel, saying: You shall not fight against the children of Esau. Therefore the Israelites removed from them and did not fight against them.
29. Then the children of Israel departed from Kadesh, and all the people came to Mount Hor [Hor, meaning mountain, lies at Moserah metioned in Deuteronomy ch. 10, v. 6, not far from Kadesh ].
30. At that time the Lord said to Moses: Tell thy brother Aaron that he shall die there, for he shall not come to the land I have given to the children of Israel.
31. And Aaron went up, at the command of the Lord, on Mount Hor, in the fortieth year, in the fifth month, in the first day of the month.
32. And Aaron was one hundred and twenty three years old when he died at Mount Hor.
1. AND king Arad the Canaanite, who dwelt in the south, heard that the Israelites had come by the way of the spies [Mount Hor is at the border of Canaan and the wilderness of Paran ], and he arranged his forces to fight against the Israelites.
2. And the children of Israel were greatly afraid of him, for he had a great and heavy army, so the children of Israel resolved to return to Egypt.
3. And the children of Israel turned back about the dis– tance of a three days journey unto Maserath Beni Jaakon, for they were much frightened on account of king Arad.
4. And the children of Israel would not get back to their former places, so they remained in Beni Jaakon for thirty days.
5. And when the children of Levi saw that the children of Israel would not turn back, they were jealous for the sake of the Lord, and they rose up and fought against the Israelites, their brethren, and slew of them a great body, and forced them to turn back to their place at Mount Hor.
6. And when they returned, king Arad was still arranging his host for battle against the Israelites.
7. And Israel vowed a vow unto the Lord, saying: If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.
8. And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and He delivered the Canaanites into their hand, and He utterly destroyed them and their cities, and He called the name of the place Hormah [destruction].
9. And the children of Israel journeyed from Mount Hor and pitched in Oboth, and they journeyed from Oboth and they pitched at Ije-Abarim, at the border of Moab.
10. And the