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Numbers 20:21

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Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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Numbers 20:21 in other translations

Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

Numbers 20:21 · World English Bible

Numbers 20:21 in context

  1. 19And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of thy water, I and my cattle, then will I give the price thereof: let me only, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.
  2. 20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
  3. 21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
  4. 22And they journeyed from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came unto mount Hor.
  5. 23And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,