12. The Horites used to live in Seir, but the Edomites took over that region. They killed many of the Horites and forced the rest of them to leave, just as Israel did to the people in the land that the Lord gave them.
13. When we came to the Zered Gorge along the southern border of Moab, the Lord told us to cross the gorge into Moab, and we did.
14. This was thirty-eight years after we left Kadesh-Barnea, and by that time all the men who had been in the army at Kadesh-Barnea had died, just as the Lord had said they would.
15-16. The Lord kept getting rid of them until finally none of them were left.
17. Then the Lord told me,
18. “Moses, now go past the town of Ar and cross Moab's northern border
19. into Ammon. But don't start a war with the Ammonites. I gave them their land, and I won't give any of it to Israel.”
20. Before the Ammonites conquered the land that the Lord had given them, some of the Rephaim used to live there, although the Ammonites called them Zamzummim.
21. The Zamzummim were a large and powerful tribe and were as tall as the Anakim. But the Lord helped the Ammonites, and they killed many of the Zamzummim and forced the rest to leave. Then the Ammonites settled there.
22. The Lord helped them as he had helped the Edomites, who killed many of the Horites in Seir and forced the rest to leave before settling there themselves.
23. A group called the Avvim used to live in villages as far south as Gaza, but the Philistines killed them and settled on their land.