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== Bamidbar (Book of Numbers), Chapter 21 ==

<named id="1"/>1 And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South, heard tell that Israel came by the way of Atharim; and he fought against Israel, and took some of them captive.

<named id="2"/>2 And Israel vowed a vow unto HaShem, and said: 'If Thou wilt indeed deliver this people into my hand, then I will utterly destroy their cities.'

<named id="3"/>3 And HaShem hearkened 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.

<named id="4"/>4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became impatient because of the way.

<named id="5"/>5 And the people spoke against G-d, and against Moses: 'Wherefore have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there is no bread, and there is no water; and our soul loatheth this light bread.'

<named id="6"/>6 And HaShem sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.

<named id="7"/>7 And the people came to Moses, and said: 'We have sinned, because we have spoken against HaShem, and against thee; pray unto HaShem, that He take away the serpents from us.' And Moses prayed for the people.

<named id="8"/>8 And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.'

<named id="9"/>9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.

<named id="10"/>10 And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.

<named id="11"/>11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising.

<named id="12"/>12 From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.

<named id="13"/>13 From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites. --For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites;

<named id="14"/>14 wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of HaShem: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,

<named id="15"/>15 And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab.--

<named id="16"/>16 And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof HaShem said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'

<named id="17"/>17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well--sing ye unto it--

<named id="18"/>18 The well, which the princes digged, which the nobles of the people delved, with the sceptre, and with their staves. And from the wilderness to Mattanah;

<named id="19"/>19 and from Mattanah to Nahaliel; and from Nahaliel to Bamoth;

<named id="20"/>20 and from Bamoth to the valley that is in the field of Moab, by the top of Pisgah, which looketh down upon the desert.

<named id="21"/>21 And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying:

<named id="22"/>22 'Let me pass through thy land; we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells; we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed thy border.'

<named id="23"/>23 And Sihon would not suffer Israel to pass through his border; but Sihon gathered all his people together, and went out against Israel into the wilderness, and came to Jahaz; and he fought against Israel.

<named id="24"/>24 And Israel smote him with the edge of the sword, and possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jabbok, even unto the children of Ammon; for the border of the children of Ammon was strong.

<named id="25"/>25 And Israel took all these cities; and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the towns thereof.

<named id="26"/>26 For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.

<named id="27"/>27 Wherefore they that speak in parables say: Come ye to Heshbon! let the city of Sihon be built and established!

<named id="28"/>28 For a fire is gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; it hath devoured Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of Arnon.

<named id="29"/>29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh; he hath given his sons as fugitives, and his daughters into captivity, unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

<named id="30"/>30 We have shot at them--Heshbon is perished--even unto Dibon, and we have laid waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

<named id="31"/>31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.

<named id="32"/>32 And Moses sent to spy out Jazer, and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.

<named id="33"/>33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei.

<named id="34"/>34 And HaShem said unto Moses: 'Fear him not; for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.'

<named id="35"/>35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him remaining; and they possessed his land.

== See also ==
* [[Bamidbar 20|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Bamidbar 21 Commentaries]]
* [[Bamidbar 22|Next Chapter]]

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