Therefore, announce: ‘I am going to give to him my covenant of peace.

He gave two carts and four oxen to the Gershonites, as their service required;

But to the Kohathites he gave none, because the service of the holy things, which they carried on their shoulders, was their responsibility.

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

and he gave four carts and eight oxen to the Merarites, as their service required, under the authority of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.

“Speak to the Israelites and tell them, ‘When you enter the land where you are to live, which I am giving you,

So Israel made a vow to the Lord and said, “If you will indeed deliver this people into our hand, then we will utterly destroy their cities.”

Woe to you, Moab. You are ruined, O people of Chemosh! He has made his sons fugitives, and his daughters the prisoners of King Sihon of the Amorites.

“The daughters of Zelophehad have a valid claim. You must indeed give them possession of an inheritance among their father’s relatives, and you must transfer the inheritance of their father to them.

Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the Lord has given them?

“Send out men to investigate the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. You are to send one man from each ancestral tribe, each one a leader among them.”

But Sihon did not permit Israel to pass through his border; he gathered all his forces together and went out against Israel into the wilderness. When he came to Jahaz, he fought against Israel.

Those of them who were numbered were 23,000, all males from a month old and upward, for they were not numbered among the Israelites; no inheritance was given to them among the Israelites.

When they went up to the Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they frustrated the intent of the Israelites so that they did not enter the land that the Lord had given them.