14 It had been thirty-eight years from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley. By then, all the fighting men from that time had died, as the Lord had promised would happen.
15 The Lord continued to work against them to remove them from the camp until they were all dead.
16 When the last of those fighting men had died,
17 the Lord said to me,
18 “Today you will pass by Ar, on the border of Moab.
19 When you come near the people of Ammon, don’t bother them or go to war against them, because I will not give you any of their land as your own. I have given it to the descendants of Lot for their own.”
20 (That land was also thought to be a land of the Rephaites, because those people used to live there, but the Ammonites called them Zamzummites.