Numbers 20:17

Good News Translation

Please permit us to pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road or go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not drink from your wells. We will stay on the main road until we are out of your territory.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“Now the people of Ammon, Moab, and Edom have attacked us. When our ancestors came out of Egypt, you did not allow them to enter those lands, so our ancestors went around them and did not destroy them.

Numbers 21:1

When the Canaanite king of Arad in the southern part of Canaan heard that the Israelites were coming by way of Atharim, he attacked them and captured some of them.

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let us pass through your country. We will go straight through and not leave the road.

Deuteronomy 2:28

We will pay for the food we eat and the water we drink. All we want to do is to pass through your country,

Deuteronomy 2:29

until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the Lord our God is giving us. The descendants of Esau, who live in Edom, and the Moabites, who live in Ar, allowed us to pass through their territory.’