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Israel made a vow to Yahweh, and they said, “If you will surely give this people into our[a] hand, then we[b] will destroy[c] their cities.” Yahweh heard the voice of Israel; he gave to them the Canaanites, and they destroyed them[d] and their cities. They called the name of the place Hormah.

They set out from Mount Hor by the way of the Red Sea[e] to go around the land of Edom; but the people became impatient[f] along the way.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:2 Hebrew “my”
  2. Numbers 21:2 Hebrew “I”
  3. Numbers 21:2 Literally “devote to God”
  4. Numbers 21:3 Literally “they devoted to God”
  5. Numbers 21:4 Literally “sea of reed”
  6. Numbers 21:4 Literally “the life of the people became short”