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,
