Numbers 20:17-19

Modern English Version

¹⁷ Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through the fields or the vineyards, or drink of the water of the wells. We will travel the king’s highway. We will not turn to the right hand nor the left, until we have passed through your territory.”

¹⁸ Edom said to him,

“You will not pass through me, lest with the sword I come out against you.”

¹⁹ The children of Israel said to him,

“We will travel the highway, and if we and our livestock drink of your water, then we will pay for it. I will only go through on my feet without doing anything else.”