²¹ Thus Edom ^(A)refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel ^(B)turned away from him.

¹⁸ “Then they journeyed through the wilderness and ^(A)went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and ^(B)arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and ^(C)camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

^29 (A)as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land that the Lord our God is giving to us.’

²⁴ Will you not possess what ^(A)Chemosh your god gives you to possess? ^(B)And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.

⁷ “You shall not abhor an Edomite, for ^(A)he is your brother. You shall not abhor an Egyptian, because ^(B)you were a sojourner in his land.

^27 (A)‘Let me pass through your land. I will go only by the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.

⁴ and command the people, “You are about to pass through the territory of ^(A)your brothers, the people of Esau, ^(B)who live in Seir; and ^(C)they will be afraid of you. So be very careful. ⁵ Do not contend with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as for the sole of the foot to tread on, because ^(D)I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession. ^6 (E)You shall purchase food from them with money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them with money, that you may drink. ⁷ For the Lord your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. ^(F)He knows your going through this great wilderness. ^(G)These forty years the Lord your God has been with you. You have lacked nothing.”’ ⁸ So ^(H)we went on, away from our brothers, the people of Esau, who live in Seir, away from ^(I)the Arabah road from ^(J)Elath and ^(K)Ezion-geber.

“And we turned and went in the direction of the wilderness of Moab.