A moment in scripture
Numbers 20:21
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
The surrounding passage
- Numbers 20:19
And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.
- Numbers 20:20
And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.
- Numbers 20:22
And the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh, and came unto mount Hor.
- Numbers 20:23
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the coast of the land of Edom, saying,
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.