Numbers 20:19

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Moses sent back this message: “We promise to stay on the main road, and if any of us or our livestock drink your water, we will pay for it. We just want to pass through.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:38

Many other people went with them as well, and there were also a lot of sheep, goats, and cattle.

Deuteronomy 2:28

You can even sell us food and water, and we will pay with silver. We need to reach the River Jordan and cross it, because the LORD our God is giving us the land on the west side. The Edomites and Moabites have already let us cross their land. Please let us cross your land as well.

Deuteronomy 2:6

And as you go through their land, you will have to buy food and water from them.”

1 Samuel 6:12

The cows went straight up the road towards Beth-Shemesh, mooing as they went. The Philistine rulers followed them until they got close to Beth-Shemesh.