Numbers 20:17-25

¹⁷Let us now go through your land: we will not go into field or vine-garden, or take the water of the springs; we will go by the highway, not turning to the right or to the left, till we have gone past the limits of your land.

¹⁸And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.

¹⁹And the children of Israel said to him, We will go up by the highway: and if we or our cattle take of your water, we will give you a price for it: only let us go through on our feet, nothing more.

²⁰But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.

²¹So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

²²And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.

²³And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,

²⁴Aaron will be put to rest with his people; he will not go into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you went against my word at the waters of Meribah.

²⁵So take Aaron and Eleazar, his son, up into Mount Hor;