The Moabites and the Ammonites (Deuteronomy 2:19), being descended from Lot, the nephew of Abraham (Genesis 19:30–38), were…

Distress not the Moabites ... I have given Ar unto the children of Lot. —The children of Lot, like those of Ishmael and Esau, had their ea…

And the Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites. He had previously forbidden them to enter the land of Edom unless consent were obtai…

And the Lord said unto me
When upon the borders of Moab:

distress not the Moabites, neither contend w…

We have the origin of the Moabites, Edomites, and Ammonites. Moses also gives an instance older than any of these: the Caphtorims drove the Avims o…