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17 Please (A)let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard; we will not even drink water from a well. We will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn to the right or to the left until we pass through your territory.’”

18 (B)Edom, however, said to him, “You shall not pass through [a]us, lest I come out to meet you with the sword.” 19 Again, the sons of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway, and if I and (C)my livestock do drink any of your water, (D)then I will [b]pay its price. Let me only pass through on my feet, [c]nothing else.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 20:18 Lit me
  2. Numbers 20:19 Lit give
  3. Numbers 20:19 Or no great thing