Numbers 20:17-25

¹⁷Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land; we pass not over through a field, or through a vineyard, nor do we drink waters of a well; the way of the king we go, we turn not aside — right or left — till that we pass over thy border.'

¹⁸And Edom saith unto him, 'Thou dost not pass over through me, lest with sword I come out to meet thee.'

¹⁹And the sons of Israel say unto him, 'In the highway we go, and if of thy waters we drink — I and my cattle — then I have given their price; only (it is nothing) on my feet I pass over.'

²⁰And he saith, 'Thou dost not pass over;' and Edom cometh out to meet him with much people, and with a strong hand;

²¹and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.

²²And the sons of Israel, the whole company, journey from Kadesh, and come in unto mount Hor,

²³and Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron in mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, saying,

²⁴'Aaron is gathered unto his people, for he doth not go in unto the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because that ye provoked My mouth at the waters of Meribah.

²⁵'Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and cause them to go up mount Hor,