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Numbers 20:18

But Edom answered him, “You will not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Edomites;   Inhospitableness;   Israel;   Thompson Chain Reference - Edomites;   Inhospitality;   Social Life;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Idumea;   Kadesh or Kadesh-Barnea;   Wells and Springs;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Kadesh-barnea;   Palestine;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Obadiah, Theology of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Mourning;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Meribah;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Edom;   Kadesh Barnea;   Moab;   Numbers, the Book of;   Wilderness of the Wanderings;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Numbers, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Edom, Edomites;   Jephthah;   Massah and Meribah;   Moses;   Numbers, Book of;   Zin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Aaron;   Kadesh, Kadeshbarnea ;   Wanderings of the Israelites;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Balaam;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Aaron;   Kadesh;   Meribali;   Wells;   Smith Bible Dictionary - E'dom, Idumae'a;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Moses;   Obadiah, Book of;   Pentateuch;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Edox, Idumea;  

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
Update Bible Version
And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, or else I will come out with the sword against you.
English Revised Version
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.
New Century Version
But the king of Edom answered: "You may not pass through here. If you try, I will come and meet you with swords."
New English Translation
But Edom said to him, "You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword."
Webster's Bible Translation
And Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
World English Bible
Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.
Amplified Bible
But [the king of] Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my territory, or I will come out against you with the sword."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
To whom Edom answeride, Ye schulen not passe bi me, ellis Y schal be armed, and come ayens thee.
Young's Literal Translation
And Edom saith unto him, `Thou dost not pass over through me, lest with sword I come out to meet thee.'
Berean Standard Bible
But Edom answered, "You may not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword."
Contemporary English Version
But the Edomite king answered, "No, I won't let you go through our country! And if you try, we will attack you."
American Standard Version
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.
Bible in Basic English
And Edom said, You are not to go through my land, for if you do I will come out against you with the sword.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Edom aunswered hym: Thou shalt not go by me, lest I come out agaynst thee with the sworde.
Complete Jewish Bible
But Edom answered, "You are not to pass through my land; if you do, I will come out against you with the sword."
Darby Translation
But Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
Easy-to-Read Version
But the king of Edom answered, "You may not travel through our land. If you try to travel through our land, we will come and fight you with swords."
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Edom said unto him: 'Thou shalt not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against thee.'
King James Version (1611)
And Edom said vnto him, Thou shalt not passe by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
New Life Bible
But Edom said to him, "You must not pass through, or I will come out with the sword against you."
New Revised Standard
But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, or we will come out with the sword against you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass through my land, - lest with the sword, I come out to meet thee.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And Edom answered him, Thou shalt not passe by mee, least I come out against thee with the sword.
George Lamsa Translation
But Edom said to him, You shall not pass through my border, lest I come out against you with the sword.
Good News Translation
But the Edomites answered, "We refuse to let you pass through our country! If you try, we will march out and attack you."
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Edom answered them: Thou shalt not pass by me: if thou dost I will come out armed against thee.
Revised Standard Version
But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Edom said to him, Thou shalt not pass through me, and if otherwise, I will go forth to meet thee in war.
Hebrew Names Version
Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.
King James Version
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
Lexham English Bible
Then Edom said to him, "You will not pass through us lest we will go out to meet you with the sword."
Literal Translation
And Edom said to him, You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But the Edomite answered him: Thou shal not go by me, or I wyl come agaynst ye with ye swerde.
THE MESSAGE
The king of Edom answered, "Not on your life. If you so much as set a foot on my land, I'll kill you."
New American Standard Bible
Edom, however, said to him, "You shall not pass through us, or I will come out with the sword against you."
New King James Version
Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword."
New Living Translation
But the king of Edom said, "Stay out of my land, or I will meet you with an army!"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Edom, however, said to him, "You shall not pass through us, or I will come out with the sword against you."
Legacy Standard Bible
Edom, however, said to him, "You shall not pass through us, lest I come out to meet you with the sword."

Contextual Overview

14Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says, ‘You know all the hardships that have overtaken us. 15Our fathers went down to Egypt, and we lived in Egypt many years, but the Egyptians treated us and our fathers badly. 16When we cried out to the Lord, he heard our plea, and sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Now look, we are in Kadesh, a city on the border of your territory. 17Please let us travel through your land. We won’t travel through any field or vineyard, or drink any well water. We will travel the King’s Highway; we won’t turn to the right or the left until we have traveled through your territory.’” 18But Edom answered him, “You will not travel through our land, or we will come out and confront you with the sword.”19“We will go on the main road,” the Israelites replied to them, “and if we or our herds drink your water, we will pay its price. There will be no problem; only let us travel through on foot.” 20Yet Edom insisted, “You may not travel through.” And they came out to confront them with a large force of heavily-armed people. 21Edom refused to allow Israel to travel through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Numbers 20:20 - Thou shalt Numbers 21:4 - compass Deuteronomy 2:29 - As the children

Cross-References

Genesis 12:17
But the Lord struck Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
Genesis 16:2
Sarai said to Abram, “Since the Lord has prevented me from bearing children, go to my slave; perhaps through her I can build a family.” And Abram agreed to what Sarai said.
Genesis 20:7
Now return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will certainly die, you and all who are yours.”
Genesis 30:2
Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in God’s place, who has withheld offspring from you?”
1 Samuel 1:6
Her rival would taunt her severely just to provoke her, because the Lord had kept Hannah from conceiving.
1 Samuel 5:10
The people of Gath then sent the ark of God to Ekron, but when it got there, the Ekronites cried out, “They’ve moved the ark of Israel’s God to us to kill us and our people!”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Edom said unto him,.... The king of Edom replied to Israel, represented by the messengers sent in their name:

thou shall not pass by me; through my country:

lest I come out against thee with the sword; or with those that use the sword, as the Targums of Onkelos and Jonathan; that is, with an army of soldiers with their drawn swords in their hands, to slay them as enemies.


 
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