Numbers 20:17-19

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁷ “Please let us pass through your country. We will not go through the fields or the vineyards, nor will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go by the King’s Way and turn neither to the right hand nor to the left, until we are past your borders.’”

¹⁸ And Edom answered him, “You shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.”

¹⁹ Then the children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway. And if I or my cattle drink from your water, then I will pay for it. I will only go through on foot, nothing else.”