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14 For this reason it says in the Book of the Wars of the Lord:

Waheb[a] in Suphah, the ravines of the Arnon, 15 the sloping ravines that bend toward the settlement of Ar and lie on the border of Moab.

16 From there they continued to Be’er.[b] That is the well which the Lord spoke about to Moses: “Gather the people together, and I will give them water.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:14 Or, following the Greek Old Testament, Zaha. This may be the name of the headwaters of the Arnon. The quotation seems to be a geographic description of the border.
  2. Numbers 21:16 Be’er means well.

14 That is why the Book of the Wars(A) 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(B)
    and lie along the border of Moab.”

16 From there they continued on to Beer,(C) the well where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people together and I will give them water.”

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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