The Israelites said to him, “We will stay on the highway; and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.”
Deuteronomy 2:6 - New Revised Standard Version You shall purchase food from them for money, so that you may eat; and you shall also buy water from them for money, so that you may drink. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You shall buy food from them for money, that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them for money, that you may drink. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall purchase food of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink. Common English Bible Of course you may buy food from them with money so you can eat, and also water with money so you can drink. Catholic Public Domain Version You shall buy food from them for money, and you shall eat. You shall draw water for money, and you shall drink. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You shall buy meats of them for money and shall eat: you shall draw waters for money, and shall drink. |
The Israelites said to him, “We will stay on the highway; and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.”
“In everything do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all.
not to engage in battle with them, for I will not give you even so much as a foot's length of their land, since I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
Surely the Lord your God has blessed you in all your undertakings; he knows your going through this great wilderness. These forty years the Lord your God has been with you; you have lacked nothing.”