Numbers 20:21
What does Numbers 20:21 mean?
A plain-English look at Numbers 20:21 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 2:4
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brethren the children of Esau, that dwell in Seir; and they will be afraid of you. Take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore;
- Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a sojourner in his land.
- Deuteronomy 2:29
as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.
- Deuteronomy 2:27
Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither unto the right hand nor to the left.
- Judges 11:24
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever Jehovah our God hath dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.
- Judges 11:18
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 came not within the border of Moab, for the Arnon was the border of Moab.
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