Numbers 20:18-20

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁸ But Edom said to him, ‘You shall not pass through, or we will come out with the sword against you.’ ¹⁹ The Israelites said to him, ‘We will stay on the highway; and if we drink of your water, we and our livestock, then we will pay for it. It is only a small matter; just let us pass through on foot.’ ²⁰ But he said, ‘You shall not pass through.’ And Edom came out against them with a large force, heavily armed.