Números 21

1Cuando el cananeo, el rey de Arad, que habitaba el Négueb, oyó decir que Israel venía por el camino de Atarim, atacó a Israel y le tomó prisioneros.

2Entonces Israel hizo voto a Yahvé, diciendo: “Si entregares a este pueblo en mi mano, destruiré completamente sus ciudades.”

3Oyó Yahvé la voz de Israel y le entregó el cananeo, y destruyeron completamente a ellos y a sus ciudades, por lo cual fue llamado aquel lugar Hormá.

4Partieron del monte Hor, camino del Mar Rojo para rodear la tierra de Edom. Mas en el camino se impacientó el pueblo,

5y murmuró contra Dios y contra Moisés: “¿Por qué nos habéis sacado de Egipto para morir en el desierto? Pues no hay pan, y no hay agua; nos provoca ya náusea este pan miserable.”

6Entonces Yahvé envió contra el pueblo serpientes abrasadoras, las cuales mordían al pueblo; y murió mucha gente de Israel.

7Y acudió el pueblo a Moisés, diciendo: “Hemos pecado, porque hemos murmurado contra Yahvé y contra ti. Ruega a Yahvé que quite de nosotros las serpientes.” Y Moisés rogó por el pueblo.

8Dijo entonces Yahvé a Moisés: “Hazte una serpiente, y ponla en un asta; quienquiera que haya sido mordido y la mirare, vivirá.”

9Hizo, pues, Moisés una serpiente de bronce, y la puso sobre un asta, y quienquiera que mordido por una serpiente dirigía su mirada a la serpiente de bronce se curaba.

10Levantaron los hijos de Israel el campamento y acamparon en Obot.

11Partidos de Obot, acamparon en Iyé-Abarim, en el desierto frente a Moab, al oriente.

12Marcharon de allí y acamparon en el valle de Sared.

13De allí partieron para acampar a la otra orilla del Arnón, en el desierto. El Arnón sale del territorio de los amorreos, pues el Arnón es la frontera de Moab, y divide a los moabitas de los amorreos.

14Por eso se dice en el Libro de las Guerras de Yahvé: “Vaheb en Sufá, y los valles del Arnón

15y el declive de los valles que desciende en la región de Ar, y se apoya sobre la frontera de Moab.”

16De allí marcharon a Beer. Este es aquel pozo del cual Yahvé dijo a Moisés: “Junta al pueblo y Yo le daré agua.”

17Entonces Israel cantó este cántico: “¡Brota, pozo, celebradle con canción!

18pozo que cavaron los príncipes; lo abrieron los nobles del pueblo con el cetro, con sus cayados.” Del desierto se dirigieron a Mataná;

19de Mataná, a Nahaliel; de Nahaliel a Bamot;

20y de Bamot al valle que está en las campiñas de Moab, (al pie de) la cumbre del Fasga que mira hacia el desierto.

21Israel envió mensajeros a Sehón, rey de los amorreos, diciendo:

22“Quiero pasar por tu tierra. No torceremos hacia los campos y viñas, ni beberemos agua de los pozos; por el camino real iremos hasta pasar tus fronteras.”

23Mas Sehón no permitió que Israel pasase por su territorio; antes bien, reuniendo Sehón a toda su gente, salió al encuentro de Israel en el desierto, y vino hasta Jahas donde atacó a Israel.

24Pero Israel lo hirió a filo de espada y se apoderó de su tierra desde el Arnón hasta el Yaboc, hasta los hijos de Ammón, cuya frontera era fortificada.

25Tomó Israel todas estas ciudades y habitó en todas las ciudades de los amorreos, en Hesbón y todos sus dominios.

26Porque Hesbón era la ciudad de Sehón, rey de los amorreos, el cual había hecho la guerra contra el anterior rey de Moab, y le había arrancado toda su tierra hasta el Arnón.

27Por eso dicen los poetas: “Id a Hesbón; y sea reedificada y fortificada la ciudad de Sehón.

28Porque salió fuego de Hesbón, llama de la plaza fuerte de Sehón, que devoró a Ar de Moab, a los señores de las alturas del Arnón.

29¡Ay de ti, Moab! perdido estás, pueblo de Camos. Entregó él sus hijos a la fuga, y sus hijas al cautiverio, en mano de Sehón, rey de los amorreos.

30Los hemos asaeteado: Hesbón está destruida hasta Dibón; hemos hecho devastación hasta Nofah, que está cerca de Medaba.”

31Así vino a habitar Israel en la tierra de los amorreos.

32Entonces Moisés envió exploradores a Jaser; y tomaron sus aldeas, expulsando a los amorreos que allí habitaban.

33Dando vuelta subieron por el camino de Basán. Mas Og, rey de Basán, salió a su encuentro con todo su pueblo para darles batalla en Edreí.

34Yahvé dijo entonces a Moisés: “No le temas, porque le he entregado en tus manos, a él y a todo su pueblo y su tierra. Harás con él como hiciste con Sehón, rey de los amorreos, que habitaba en Hesbón.”

35Y le derrotaron, a él y a sus hijos y a todo su pueblo, sin dejarle un hombre con vida; y tomaron posesión de su tierra.

1Quod cum audisset Chananæus rex Arad, qui habitabat ad meridiem, venisse scilicet Israël per exploratorum viam, pugnavit contra illum, et victor existens, duxit ex eo prædam.

2At Israël voto se Domino obligans, ait: Si tradideris populum istum in manu mea, delebo urbes ejus.

3Exaudivitque Dominus preces Israël, et tradidit Chananæum, quem ille interfecit subversis urbibus ejus: et vocavit nomen loci illius Horma, id est, anathema.

4Profecti sunt autem et de monte Hor, per viam quæ ducit ad mare Rubrum, ut circumirent terram Edom. Et tædere cœpit populum itineris ac laboris:

5locutusque contra Deum et Moysen, ait: Cur eduxisti nos de Ægypto, ut moreremur in solitudine? deest panis, non sunt aquæ: anima nostra jam nauseat super cibo isto levissimo.

6Quam ob rem misit Dominus in populum ignitos serpentes, ad quorum plagas et mortes plurimorum,

7venerunt ad Moysen, atque dixerunt: Peccavimus, quia locuti sumus contra Dominum et te: ora ut tollat a nobis serpentes. Oravitque Moyses pro populo,

8et locutus est Dominus ad eum: Fac serpentem æneum, et pone eum pro signo: qui percussus aspexerit eum, vivet.

9Fecit ergo Moyses serpentem æneum, et posuit eum pro signo: quem cum percussi aspicerent, sanabantur.

10Profectique filii Israël castrametati sunt in Oboth.

11Unde egressi fixere tentoria in Jeabarim, in solitudine quæ respicit Moab contra orientalem plagam.

12Et inde moventes, venerunt ad torrentem Zared.

13Quem relinquentes castrametati sunt contra Arnon, quæ est in deserto, et prominet in finibus Amorrhæi. Siquidem Arnon terminus est Moab, dividens Moabitas et Amorrhæos.

14Unde dicitur in libro bellorum Domini: [Sicut fecit in mari Rubro, sic faciet in torrentibus Arnon.

15Scopuli torrentium inclinati sunt, ut requiescerent in Ar, et recumberent in finibus Moabitarum.]

16Ex eo loco apparuit puteus, super quo locutus est Dominus ad Moysen: Congrega populum, et dabo ei aquam.

17Tunc cecinit Israël carmen istud: [Ascendat puteus.] Concinebant:

18[Puteus, quem foderunt principes et paraverunt duces multitudinis in datore legis, et in baculis suis.] De solitudine, Matthana.

19De Matthana in Nahaliel: de Nahaliel in Bamoth.

20De Bamoth, vallis est in regione Moab, in vertice Phasga, quod respicit contra desertum.

21Misit autem Israël nuntios ad Sehon regem Amorrhæorum, dicens:

22Obsecro ut transire mihi liceat per terram tuam: non declinabimus in agros et vineas; non bibemus aquas ex puteis: via regia gradiemur, donec transeamus terminos tuos.

23Qui concedere noluit ut transiret Israël per fines suos: quin potius exercitu congregato, egressus est obviam in desertum, et venit in Jasa, pugnavitque contra eum.

24A quo percussus est in ore gladii, et possessa est terra ejus ab Arnon usque Jeboc, et filios Ammon: quia forti præsidio tenebantur termini Ammonitarum.

25Tulit ergo Israël omnes civitates ejus, et habitavit in urbibus Amorrhæi, in Hesebon scilicet, et viculis ejus.

26Urbs Hesebon fuit Sehon regis Amorrhæi, qui pugnavit contra regem Moab: et tulit omnem terram, quæ ditionis illius fuerat usque Arnon.

27Idcirco dicitur in proverbio: [Venite in Hesebon: ædificetur, et construatur civitas Sehon:

28ignis egressus est de Hesebon, flamma de oppido Sehon, et devoravit Ar Moabitarum, et habitatores excelsorum Arnon.

29Væ tibi Moab; peristi popule Chamos. Dedit filios ejus in fugam, et filias in captivitatem regi Amorrhæorum Sehon.

30Jugum ipsorum disperiit ad Hesebon usque Dibon: lassi pervenerunt in Nophe, et usque Medaba.]

31Habitavit itaque Israël in terra Amorrhæi.

32Misitque Moyses qui explorarent Jazer: cujus ceperunt viculos, et possederunt habitatores.

33Verteruntque se, et ascenderunt per viam Basan, et occurrit eis Og, rex Basan, cum omni populo suo, pugnaturus in Edrai.

34Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen: Ne timeas eum, quia in manu tua tradidi illum, et omnem populum ac terram ejus: faciesque illi sicut fecisti Sehon, regi Amorrhæorum habitatori Hesebon.

35Percusserunt igitur et hunc cum filiis suis, universumque populum ejus usque ad internecionem, et possederunt terram illius.

1And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils.

2But Israel binding himself by vow to the Lord, said: It thou wilt deliver this people into my hand, I will utterly destroy their cities.

3And the Lord heard the prayers of Israel, and delivered up the Chanaanite, and they cut them off and destroyed their cities: and they called the name of that place Horma, that is to say, Anathema.

4And they marched from mount Hor, by the way that leadeth to the Red Sea, to compass the land of Edom. And the people began to be weary of their journey and labour:

5And speaking against God and Moses, they said: Why didst thou bring us out of Egypt, to die in the wilderness? There is no bread, nor have we any waters: our soul now loatheth this very light food.

6Wherefore the Lord sent among the people fiery serpents, which bit them and killed many of them.

7Upon which they came to Moses, and said: We have sinned, because we have spoken against the Lord and thee: pray that he may take away these serpents from us. And Moses prayed for the people.

8And the Lord said to him: Make brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: whosoever being struck shall look on it, shall live.

9Moses therefore made a brazen serpent, and set it up for a sign: which when they that were bitten looked upon, they were healed.

10And the children of Israel setting forwards camped in Oboth.

11And departing thence they pitched their tents in Jeabarim, in the wilderness, that faceth Moab toward the east.

12And removing from thence, they came to the torrent Zared:

13Which they left and encamped over against Arnon, which is in the desert and standeth out on the borders of the Amorrhite. For Arnon is the border of Moab, dividing the Moabites and the Amorrhites.

14Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars of the Lord: As he did in the Red Sea, so will he do in the streams of Amen.

15The rocks of the torrents were bowed down that they might rest in Ar, and lie down in the borders of the Moabites.

16When they went from that place, the well appeared whereof the Lord said to Moses: Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

17Then Israel sung this song: Let the well spring up. They sung thereto:

18The well, which the princes dug, and the chiefs of the people prepared by the direction of the lawgiver, and with their staves. And they marched from the wilderness to Mathana.

19From Mathana unto Nahaliel: from Nahaliel unto Bamoth.

20From Bamoth, is a valley in the country of Moab, to the top of Phasga, which looked towards the desert.

21And Israel sent messengers to Sehon king of the Amorrhites, saying:

22I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king’s highway, till we be past thy borders.

23And he would not grant that Israel should pass by his borders: but rather gathering an army, went forth to meet them in the desert, and came to Jasa, and fought against them.

24And he was slain by them with the edge of the sword, and they possessed his land from the Arnon unto the Jeboc, and to the confines of the children of Ammon: for the borders of the Ammonites, were kept with a strong garrison.

25So Israel took all his cities, and dwelt in the cities of the Amorrhite, to wit, in Hesebon, and in the villages thereof.

26Hesebon was the city of Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, who fought against the king of Moab: and took all the land, that had been of his dominions, as far as the Arnon.

27Therefore it is said in the proverb: Come into Hesebon, let the city of Sehon be built and set up:

28A fire is gone out of Hesebon, a flame from the city of Sehon, and hath consumed Ar of the Moabites, and the inhabitants of the high places of the Arnon.

29Woe to thee Moab: thou art undone, O people of Chamos. He hath given his sons to flight, and his daughters into captivity to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites.

30Their yoke is perished from Hesebon unto Dibon, they came weary to Nophe, and unto Medaba.

31So Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorrhite.

32And Moses sent some to take a view of Jazer: and they took the villages of it, and conquered the inhabitants.

33And they turned themselves, and went up by the way of Basan, and Og the king of Basan came against them with all his people, to fight in Edrai.

34And the Lord said to Moses: Fear him not, for I have delivered him and all his people, and his country into thy hand: and thou shalt do to him as thou didst to Sehon the king of the Amorrhites, the inhabitant of Hesebon.

35So they slew him also with his sons, and all his people, not letting any one escape, and they possessed his land.