Numbers 20:17-19

The Voice

¹⁷ Would you please grant us permission to cross through? I promise that we won’t take anything from your seeded farmland or cultivated countryside. Nor will we drink from your wells. We will stick to the main road, the king’s highway, and not step off it either to the right or left until we’re well past your country’s limits.

Edom’s Message: ¹⁸ No. If you so much as put a foot in our territory, we’ll attack you.

Israelites’ Message: ¹⁹ But we will keep strictly to the highway and pay you if any of us or any of our animals drink any water, only let us pass through.