The Bronze Serpent

4 From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, ^yto go around the land of Edom. ^zAnd the people became impatient on the way.

8 So we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from the Arabah road from Elath and Ezion-geber.

“And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.

18 “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and ^ewent around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived ^fon the east side of the land of Moab and ^gcamped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.