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14 That is why the Book of the Wars of the Lord [C a source now lost] says:

“ … and Waheb in Suphah, and the ·ravines [wadis],
the Arnon, 15     and the slopes of the ·ravines [wadis]
that lead to the settlement of Ar.
    These places are at the border of Moab.”

16 The Israelites went from there to Beer; a well is there where the Lord said to Moses, “Gather the people and I will give them water.”

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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