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Edom Refuses Passage

Numbers 20:21

In 11 translations

BSB
So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
KJV
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
WEB
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
ASV
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
LSV
and Edom refuses to permit Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turns aside from off him.
YLT
and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.
DBY
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.
DRC
Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.
GNV
Thus Edom denyed to giue Israel passage through his countrey: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
JPS
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; wherefore Israel turned away from him.
LXXE
So Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his borders, and Israel turned away from him.

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Original-language editions

WLC
וַיְמָאֵ֣ן ׀ אֱד֗וֹם נְתֹן֙ אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל עֲבֹ֖ר בִּגְבֻל֑וֹ וַיֵּ֥ט יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל מֵעָלָֽיו׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν Ἐδὼμ δοῦναι τῷ Ἰσραὴλ παρελθεῖν διὰ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτοῦ· καὶ ἐξέκλινεν Ἰσραὴλ ἀπʼ αὐτοῦ.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 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…
  • 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 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.
  • Judges 11:24Do you not possess whatever your god Chemosh grants you? So also, we possess whatever the LORD our God has granted us.
  • Deuteronomy 2:4–8and 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. Do not provoke them, for I will not…
  • 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.

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