OLD TESTAMENT

Deuteronomy 2:5

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Don’t contend with them; for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau for a possession.

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Verse 5. Stir. Hebrew gur, meddle not, wage not war, do not molest, and so forth The Idumeans near Mount Hor, afterwards refused the Hebrews a passage, and the necessaries of life, though their brethren in Mount Seir had granted them the latter, while they passed quietly along their borders, 5:28. See Numbers 20:21. Bible.

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