Numbers 20:17

New Living Translation

Please let us travel through your land. We will be careful not to go through your fields and vineyards. We won’t even drink water from your wells. We will stay on the king’s road and never leave it until we have passed through your territory.”

Cross References

2 Chronicles 20:10

“And now see what the armies of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir are doing. You would not let our ancestors invade those nations when Israel left Egypt, so they went around them and did not destroy them.

Numbers 21:1

The Canaanite king of Arad, who lived in the Negev, heard that the Israelites were approaching on the road through Atharim. So he attacked the Israelites and took some of them as prisoners.

Deuteronomy 2:27

‘Let us travel through your land. We will stay on the main road and won’t turn off into the fields on either side.

Deuteronomy 2:28

Sell us food to eat and water to drink, and we will pay for it. All we want is permission to pass through your land.

Deuteronomy 2:29

The descendants of Esau who live in Seir allowed us to go through their country, and so did the Moabites, who live in Ar. Let us pass through until we cross the Jordan into the land the Lord our God is giving us.’