¹⁸ And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.

^{19 Ref} And 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.

^{20 Ref} But he said, You are not to go through. And Edom came out against them in his strength, with a great army.

^{21 Ref} So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.

^{22 Ref} And they went on from Kadesh, and came, with all their people, to Mount Hor.

^{23 Ref} And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,