Numbers 20:17
Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink the water of the wells: we will go by the king's way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.
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15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the Yahuah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and has brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border:
17 Let us pass, I pray you, through your country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink the water of the wells: we will go by the king's way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your borders.
18 And Edom said unto him, you shall not pass by me, lest I come out against you with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without any thing , go through on my feet.