Numbers 20:19

New International Reader's Version

The Israelites replied, “We’ll go along the main road. We and our livestock won’t drink any of your water. If we do, we’ll pay for it. We only want to walk through your country. That’s all we ask.”

Cross References

Exodus 12:38

So did many other people. The Israelites also took large flocks and herds with them.

Deuteronomy 2:28

We’ll pay you the right amount of silver for food to eat and water to drink. Just let us walk through your country.

Deuteronomy 2:6

Pay them with silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ”

1 Samuel 6:12

Then the cows went straight up toward Beth Shemesh. They stayed on the road. They were mooing all the way. They didn’t turn to the right or the left. The Philistine rulers followed them all the way to the border of Beth Shemesh.