Numbers 20:16-29

¹⁶and how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel that hath led us out of Egypt. And lo! we be set in the city of Kadesh, that is in thine uttermost coasts,

¹⁷and we beseech thee that it be leaveful to us to pass through thy land; we shall not go by thy fields, neither by thy vineries or vines, neither we shall drink waters of thy pits or wells; but we shall go in the common way, and we shall not bow to the right side, neither to the left side, till we pass thy terms.

¹⁸To whom Edom answered, Ye shall not pass by me, else I shall be armed, and come against thee.

¹⁹And the sons of Israel said, We shall go by the way commonly used, and if we and our beasts drink thy waters, we shall give that that is just; no hardness shall be in the price, only pass we in haste.

²⁰And he answered, Ye shall not pass by me. And anon he went out against Israel, with a multitude with-out number, and with a strong hand or with strong power,

²¹neither he would assent to Israel beseeching, that he should grant passage by his coasts.

²²Wherefore Israel turned away from him. And when Israel had moved their tents from Kadesh, they came into the hill of Hor,

²³which is in the ends of the land of Edom; where the Lord spake to Moses, and said,

²⁴Aaron go to his people; for he shall not enter into the land which I gave to the sons of Israel, for he was unbelieveful to my word, at the waters of Against-saying.

²⁵Take thou Aaron, and his son with him, and thou shalt lead them into the hill of Hor;

²⁶and when thou hast made naked the father of his cloth, thou shalt clothe therewith Eleazar, his son, and Aaron shall be gathered, and shall die there.

²⁷And Moses did as the Lord commanded; and they ascended or went up into the hill of Hor, before all the multitude.

²⁸And when Moses had made naked Aaron of his clothes, he clothed with those or them Eleazar, his son. Soothly when Aaron was dead in the top of the hill, Moses came down with Eleazar.

²⁹Soothly all the multitude saw that Aaron was dead, and it wept upon him thirty days, by all their meines.