^{15 Ref} And said to him, This is the word of Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the children of Ammon;

^{16 Ref} But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

^{17 Ref} Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.

^{18 Ref} Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.