Numbers 20:17

New English Translation

Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards, nor will we drink water from any well. We will go by the King’s Highway; we will not turn to the right or the left until we have passed through your region.’”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

Now the Ammonites, Moabites, and men from Mount Seir are coming! When Israel came from the land of Egypt, you did not allow them to invade these lands. They bypassed them and did not destroy them.

Numbers 21:1

When the Canaanite king of Arad who lived in the Negev heard that Israel was approaching along the road to Atharim, he fought against Israel and took some of them prisoner.

Deuteronomy 2:27

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Deuteronomy 2:28

Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

Deuteronomy 2:29

just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.”