Numbers 20:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Common English Bible

²¹ Edom refused to allow Israel to cross his border. And Israel turned away from him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ neither was he willing to agree to their petition to concede passage through his borders. For this reason, Israel diverted away from him.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.

Numbers 20:21 Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

And now behold, the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, and whom they avoided and did not destroy—

Numbers 21:23

But Sihon would not allow Israel to pass through his territory. He gathered all his men together, and went out against Israel to the wilderness, and came to Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

Numbers 21:4

From Mount Hor they set out by the way to the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the people became impatient on the way.

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let me pass through your land; I will go only by the road, I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.

Deuteronomy 2:29

as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I go over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God gives to us.’

Deuteronomy 23:7

“You shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is your brother; you shall not abhor an Egyptian, because you were a sojourner in his land.

Judges 11:17

Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, ‘Let us pass, we pray, through your land’; but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.

Judges 11:18

Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.

Judges 11:24

Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the Lord our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.