Numbers 20:21
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.”
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“So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Numbers 20:21 — 9 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 21:4Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
- Deuteronomy 2:4and command the people: ‘You will pass through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. They will be afraid of you, so you must be very careful.
- Deuteronomy 2:8So we passed by our brothers, the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned away from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion-geber, and traveled along the road of the Wilderness of Moab.
- Deuteronomy 2:27“Let us pass through your land; we will stay on the main road. We will not turn to the right or to the left.
- Deuteronomy 2:29just as the descendants of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for us, until we cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- Deuteronomy 23:7Do not despise an Edomite, for he is your brother. Do not despise an Egyptian, because you lived as a foreigner in his land.
- Judges 11:18Then Israel traveled through the wilderness and bypassed the lands of Edom and Moab. They came to the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, since the Arnon was its border.
- Judges 11:24Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
- 2 Chronicles 20:10And now, here are the men of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir, whom You did not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt; but Israel turned away from them and did not destroy them.
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