14 It had been 38 years since we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died. This is what the Lord had promised would happen.
15 The Lord had continued to destroy them until they were all gone from the camp.
16 Now the last of those fighting men had died.
17 Then the Lord said to me,
18 “Today you must go by Ar, on the border of Moab.
19 When you come near the people of Ammon, don’t bother them. Don’t go to war against them. I am not giving you their land. I have given that land to the descendants of Lot.”
20 (That land was also thought to be a land of Rephaites. Those people used to live there. But the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.