Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation Please permit us to pass through your land. We and our cattle will not leave the road or go into your fields or vineyards, and we will not drink from your wells. We will stay on the main road until we are out of your territory." New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders. Numbers 21:1,22-24 And when king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, had heard this, to wit, that Israel was come by the way of the spies, he fought against them, and overcoming them carried off their spoils. . . . Deuteronomy 2:1-4,27,29 And departing from thence we came into the wilderness that leadeth to the Red Sea, as the Lord had spoken to me: and we compassed mount Seir a long time. . . . Context Edom Refuses Passage…16And how we cried to the Lord, and he heard us, and sent an angel, who hath brought us out of Egypt. Lo, we are now in the city of Cades, which is in the uttermost of thy borders, 17And we beseech thee that we may have leave to pass through thy country. We will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, we will not drink the waters of thy wells, but we will go by the common highway, neither turning aside to the right hand, nor to the left, till we are past thy borders.18And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.… Cross References Numbers 21:22 I beseech thee that I may have leave to pass through thy land: we will not go aside into the fields or the vineyards, we will not drink waters of the wells, we will go the king's highway, till we be past thy borders. 2 Chronicles 20:10 Now therefore behold the children of Ammon, and of Moab, and mount Seir, through whose lands thou didst not allow Israel to pass, when they came out of Egypt, but they turned aside from them, and slew them not, Jump to Previous Border Borders Country Drink Hand High Highway King's Passed Right Turn Vineyard Vineyards Water Way WellsJump to Next Border Borders Country Drink Hand High Highway King's Passed Right Turn Vineyard Vineyards Water Way WellsLinks Numbers 20:17 NIVNumbers 20:17 NLT Numbers 20:17 ESV Numbers 20:17 NASB Numbers 20:17 Bible Apps Numbers 20:17 Biblia Paralela Numbers 20:17 Chinese Bible Numbers 20:17 French Bible Numbers 20:17 German Bible Alphabetical: a along and any country drink even field from go have highway king's land left let not or pass passed Please right territory territory' the through to travel turn turning until us vineyard water We well will your OT Law: Numbers 20:17 Please let us pass through your land: (Nu Num.) Bible Study Resources, Dictionary, Concordance and Search Tools |