What Does Moab Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses

Out in the wilderness the people go around and around one mountain, Seir, until a word comes: you have circled this mountain long enough, turn north. All of being moves in a circle, out from the One and back again, and a soul is turned round the same lesson until it ripens. But a circle kept too long hardens into habit, and this moment's command is never the last one's, since the One who keeps showing Himself never shows the same face twice.

North means walking through the land of their own relatives, Esau's children, who are afraid of them. Do not pick a fight: you will not be given even a footprint of those hills, because that mountain was handed to Esau. Buy your bread with silver, and your water too. Whoever measured your share measured your brother's, and nothing receives more than it is shaped to hold, so grabbing Esau's footprint says the sharing was a mistake. The roads to Him are as many as the breaths of living things, and no two feet stand on the same ground. Being told to pay is no insult: wells and sellers are His own doing in other clothes, the same hidden feeding that left them lacking nothing for forty years.

• Then Moab, and the same word: leave them, that land belongs to Lot's children. Quietly the story remembers who lived there before, giants called Emim, the Horites whom Esau's sons pushed out, the Avvim swept away by people off the sea. Nobody holds his ground by right; every holding is a loan, and everything passes except His face. So thirty eight years go by until the last of the fighting generation is dead, and only then do they cross the valley of Zered. No one crosses on someone else's ripeness.