KJV King James Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
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Numbers 21:32
And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.
WEB World English Bible
Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took its towns, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
ASV American Standard Version
And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns thereof, and drove out the Amorites that were there.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
and Moses sendeth to spy out Jaazer, and they capture its villages, and dispossess the Amorite who is there,
Surrounding context — Numbers 21
29 Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.
30 We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which [reacheth] unto Medeba.
31 Thus Israel dwelt in the land of the Amorites.
32 And Moses sent to spy out Jaazer, and they took the villages thereof, and drove out the Amorites that [were] there.
33 And they turned and went up by the way of Bashan: and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he, and all his people, to the battle at Edrei.
34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Fear him not: for I have delivered him into thy hand, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.
35 So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
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וַיִּשְׁלַ֤חH7971 · sha.lachto send: departמֹשֶׁה֙H4872 · mo.shehMosesלְרַגֵּ֣לH7270 · ra.galto spyאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]יַעְזֵ֔רH3270 · ya.a.zerJazerוַֽיִּלְכְּד֖וּH3920 · la.khadto captureבְּנֹתֶ֑יהָH1323 · batdaughterוַיּ֖וֹרֶשׁH3423 · ya.rashto possess: possessאֶת־H853 · et[Obj.]הָאֱמֹרִ֥יH567 · e.mo.riAmoriteאֲשֶׁר־H834 · a.sherwhichשָֽׁם׃H8033 · shamthere
Cross-references
Jeremiah 48:32O vine of Sibmah, I will weep for thee with the weeping of Jazer: thy plants are gone over the sea, they reach [even] to the sea of Jazer: the spoiler is fallen upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage.Numbers 32:1Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place [was] a place for cattle;Numbers 32:35And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,Isaiah 16:8-9For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah: the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof, they are come [even] unto Jazer, they wandered [through] the wilderness: her branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.Numbers 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
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