Narrative Numbers 21 Part II: Dragon Tummies & Jigglypuffs

They camped in Ovot, which means water skins or necromancers.

They pulled up their tent pegs and journeyed from Ovot.

They camped in E-Ha-Avarim, crookedness of those who cross over in the desert.

That is over the face of Moab from the dawn of the sun.

From there, they pulled up their tent pegs and journeyed.

They camped in the wadi of Zered, exuberant growth.

From there, they pulled up their tent pegs and journeyed.

They camped on the crossing of the Arnon.

I will shout joyously, which is in the desert that goes from the departure of the border of the Amori, which means Westerners.

For the Arnon is the border of Moab between Moab and Amori.

Therefore, it is said in the scroll of the wars of Yahweh and the Wahev in the whirlwind and the wadis of the Arnon and the ravine of the wadis that stretch out to the dwelling of Ar, which means wakened watcher that leans upon the border of Moab from their bare cistern.

The cistern is where Yahweh said to Moshe, scrape together the people.

Oh, that I might give them water.

Then Israel sang the song, ascend cistern, answer her.

The cistern was hollowed by the commanders, the willing of the people dug.

the engravers by their canes, from the desert of Matanah, gift.

From Matanah to Nachaliel, torrent of God, from Nachaliel to Bamut, high place, from Bamut, the Gaia that is in the field of Moab, to the head of the Pisgah, the cleft, which leans out over the face of the wasteland.

Yisrael sent angels or messengers to Sihon, which means foal, king of the Amori, saying, Oh, I would cross through your land.

We will not pitch our tents in a field nor a vineyard.

We will not drink cistern water.

In the highway of the king, we will walk until we have crossed through your border.

Sihon would not gift Yisrael to pass through his border.

Sihon scraped together all his people.

They departed to call to Yisrael toward the desert.

He came to Yahatzah.