 In Lot's older daughter named her son Moab ("of my father"), and so in God told Moses, "Be not at enmity with Moab, neither contend with them in battle"; God forbade only war with the Moabites, but the Israelites might harass them.In in contrast, Lot's younger daughter named her son Ben-Ammi (the less shameful "son of my people"), and so in God told Moses, "Harass them not, nor contend with them"; the Israelites were not to harass the Ammonites at all.Reading "And the Lord spoke to me, ‘Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle,'" Ulla argued that it certainly could not have entered the mind of Moses to wage war without God's authorization.