World English Bible
"Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him."
— Numbers 20:21, World English Bible
“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him. ”
“So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.”
“Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.”
“So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.”
“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."
The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."
He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
"Aaron shall be gathered to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters of Meribah.