Numbers 20:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 2:6 : 6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.
  • Deut 2:28 : 28 Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;
  • Exod 12:38 : 38 And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and herds in great numbers.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17 Let 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.

    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.

  • Num 21:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,

    22 Let me 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 till we have gone past the limits of your land.

  • Deut 2:27-29
    3 verses
    82%

    27 Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;

    28 Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;

    29 As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.

  • Num 20:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

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

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

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    16 But when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the waste land to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh;

    17 Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.

    18 Then he went on through the waste land and round the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon; they did not come inside the limit of Moab, for the Arnon was the limit of Moab.

    19 And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, Let me now go through your land to my place.

  • 2 Kgs 3:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.

    9 So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.

  • Gen 33:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12 And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

    13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

    14 Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.

  • 6 You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.

  • Exod 17:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 And the children of Israel went on from the waste land of Sin, by stages as the Lord gave them orders, and put up their tents in Rephidim: and there was no drinking-water for the people.

    2 So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?

    3 And the people were in great need of water; and they made an outcry against Moses, and said, Why have you taken us out of Egypt to send death on us and our children and our cattle through need of water?

  • 6 See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.

  • 8 So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.

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    19 But we have dry grass and food for our asses, as well as bread and wine for me, and for the woman, and for the young man with us: we have no need of anything.

    20 And the old man said, Peace be with you; let all your needs be my care; only do not take your rest in the street.

  • 16 From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.

  • 19 And they said, An Egyptian came to our help against the keepers of sheep and got water for us and gave it to the flock.

  • Num 20:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel went against the Lord, and they saw that he was holy among them.

    14 Then Moses sent men from Kadesh to the king of Edom to say to him, Your brother Israel says, You have knowledge of all the things we have been through;

  • 22 Then Moses took Israel forward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the waste land of Shur; and for three days they were in the waste land where there was no water.

  • 12 But his master said to him, We will not go out of our way into a strange town, whose people are not of the children of Israel; but we will go on to Gibeah.

  • 31 And Laban said, What am I to give you? And Jacob said, Do not give me anything; but I will again take up the care of your flock if you will only do this for me:

  • 20 Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.

  • 4 Let me get water for washing your feet, and take your rest under the tree:

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?

    5 Why have you made us come out of Egypt into this evil place? This is no place of seed or figs or vines or other fruits, and there is no water for drinking.

  • 22 And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

  • 40 But as for you, go back, journeying into the waste land by the way of the Red Sea.

  • Num 10:30-32
    3 verses
    68%

    30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

    31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

    32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

  • 3 And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.

  • 21 They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.

  • 3 Go up to that land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, for fear that I send destruction on you while you are on the way.