Numbers 20:19

World English Bible (2000)

The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 2:6 : 6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'"
  • Deut 2:28 : 28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
  • Exod 12:38 : 38 A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

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  • Num 20:17-18
    2 verses
    85%

    17 "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

    18 Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

  • Num 21:21-22
    2 verses
    82%

    21 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

    22 "Let me pass through your land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's highway, until we have passed your border."

  • Deut 2:27-29
    3 verses
    82%

    27 "Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.

    28 You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,

    29 as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us."

  • Num 20:20-21
    2 verses
    81%

    20 He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

    21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

  • 76%

    16 but when they came up from Egypt, and Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh;

    17 then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let me pass through your land;' but the king of Edom didn't listen. In the same way, he sent to the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel stayed in Kadesh.

    18 Then they went through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom, and the land of Moab, and came by the east side of the land of Moab, and they encamped on the other side of the Arnon; but they didn't come within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.

    19 Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to my place.'

  • 2 Kgs 3:8-9
    2 verses
    75%

    8 He said, "Which way shall we go up?" He answered, "The way of the wilderness of Edom."

    9 So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. There was no water for the army, nor for the animals that followed them.

  • Gen 33:12-14
    3 verses
    72%

    12 Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."

    13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.

    14 Please let my lord pass over before his servant, and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the livestock that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."

  • 6 You shall purchase food of them for money, that you may eat; and you shall also buy water of them for money, that you may drink.'"

  • Exod 17:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1 All the congregation of the children of Israel traveled from the wilderness of Sin, by their journeys, according to Yahweh's commandment, and encamped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

    2 Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, "Give us water to drink." Moses said to them, "Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?"

    3 The people were thirsty for water there; and the people murmured against Moses, and said, "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?"

  • 6 Behold, I will stand before you there on the rock in Horeb. You shall strike the rock, and water will come out of it, that the people may drink." Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

  • 8 So we passed by from our brothers the children of Esau, who dwell in Seir, from the way of the Arabah from Elath and from Ezion Geber. We turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

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    19 Yet there is both straw and provender for our donkeys; and there is bread and wine also for me, and for your handmaid, and for the young man who is with your servants: there is no want of anything."

    20 The old man said, "Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street."

  • 16 From there they traveled to Beer: that is the well of which Yahweh said to Moses, "Gather the people together, and I will give them water."

  • 19 They said, "An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and moreover he drew water for us, and watered the flock."

  • Num 20:13-14
    2 verses
    69%

    13 These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.

    14 Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

  • 22 Moses led Israel onward from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

  • 12 His master said to him, "We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah."

  • 31 He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.

  • 20 It happened in the morning, about the time of offering the offering, that behold, water came by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

  • 4 Now let a little water be fetched, wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree.

  • Num 20:4-5
    2 verses
    68%

    4 Why have you brought the assembly of Yahweh into this wilderness, that we should die there, we and our animals?

    5 Why have you made us to come up out of Egypt, to bring us in to this evil place? It is no place of seed, or of figs, or of vines, or of pomegranates; neither is there any water to drink."

  • 22 The children of Israel went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.

  • 40 But as for you, turn, and take your journey into the wilderness by the way to the Red Sea."

  • Num 10:30-32
    3 verses
    68%

    30 He said to him, "I will not go; but I will depart to my own land, and to my relatives."

    31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.

    32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."

  • 3 One said, "Please be pleased to go with your servants." He answered, "I will go."

  • 21 They didn't thirst when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he split the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • 3 to a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you in the way."