13. “The Lord told me, ‘Now, go to the other side of Zered Valley.’ So we crossed Zered Valley.
14. It was 38 years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until the time we crossed Zered Valley. As the Lord had promised, all the fighting men in our camp from that generation had died.
15. The Lord had opposed those men until they were all dead and gone from our camp.
16. “After all the fighting men were dead and gone,
17. the Lord said to me,
18. ‘Today you must cross the border at Ar and go into Moab.
19. You will be just across from the Ammonites. Don’t bother them or fight with them, because I will not give you their land. They are descendants of Lot, and I have given that land to them.’”
20. (That country is also known as the Land of Rephaim. The Rephaites lived there in the past. The people of Ammon called them the Zamzummites.