Numbers 20:17 - The Scriptures 1998

‘Please let us pass over, through your land. We shall not pass over through fields or vineyards, nor drink water from wells, we shall go along the sovereign’s highway. We shall not turn aside, right or left, until we have passed over your border.’ ”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Let us pass, I pray you, through your country. We will not pass through field or vineyard, or drink of the water of the wells. We will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed your borders.

American Standard Version (1901)

Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells; we will go along the king’s highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy border.

Common English Bible

Please let us cross through your land. We won’t pass through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will walk on the King’s Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have crossed your border.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

And we beg you to permit us to cross through your land. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards; we will not drink the waters of your wells, but we will travel by the public ways, neither turning aside to the right, nor to the left, until we have passed your borders."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards: we will not drink the waters of thy wells: but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.

Numbers 20:17 Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“And now, see, the children of Ammon and Mo’aḇ

Numbers 21:1

And the sovereign of Araḏ

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let me pass over through your land on the highway. I shall go on the highway and turn neither to the right nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 2:28

‘What food you sell me for silver I shall eat, and what water you give me for silver I shall drink. Only let me pass over on foot,

Deuteronomy 2:29

as the descendants of Ě