“And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.”
And the LORD said to me, 'Do not oppress the Moabites, and do not provoke them to war; for I will not give you any of their land for a possession, because I have given Ar to the sons of Lot for a possession' -- Moab, like Edom, has divine territorial allocation. 'Do not oppress' suggests that Israel might be tempted to dominate the weaker Moabites; the command forbids this. The reference to Lot (Abraham's nephew) connects Moab to Israel's own ancestry: they are distant kin. The territorial principle is reaffirmed: some lands are off-limits.
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