13 ¶ Thence they departed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness, and cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: (for Arnon is the border of Moab, between the Moabites and the Amorites),

14 Wherefore it shall be spoken in the [a]book of the battles of the Lord, [b]what thing he did in the red sea, and in the rivers of Arnon,

15 And at the stream of the rivers that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:14 Which seemeth to be the book of the Judges, or as some think, a book which is lost.
  2. Numbers 21:14 Or, (How God destroyed) Waheb (the city) with a whirlwind and the valley of Arnon.

13 They set out from there and camped alongside the Arnon(A), which is in the wilderness extending into Amorite territory. The Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.(B) 14 That is why the Book of the Wars(C) of the Lord says:

“. . . Zahab[a] in Suphah and the ravines,
    the Arnon 15 and[b] the slopes of the ravines
that lead to the settlement of Ar(D)
    and lie along the border of Moab.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:14 Septuagint; Hebrew Waheb
  2. Numbers 21:15 Or “I have been given from Suphah and the ravines / of the Arnon 15 to