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Números 20:17

Listen to Números 20:17
17 Deixa-nos, pois, passar pela tua terra; não passaremos pelos campos, nem pelas vinhas, nem beberemos a água dos poços; iremos pela estrada real, não nos desviando para a direita nem para a esquerda, até que tenhamos passado os teus termos.

Números 20:17 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 20:17

Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country
That being the nearest and shortest way to the land of Canaan, from the place where they now were:

we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards;
to harm them, and injure any man in his private property, by gathering the fruit of them, if the season of the year for it, or by trampling them down:

neither will we drink of the water of the wells;
which private persons had dug, for the watering of their fields and vineyards, and for other uses, at least without paying for it; or only of the waters of the rivers, common to all passengers; from hence it appears, that the country of Edom was not then such a barren country as in later times, and as travellers F3 now report it is; (See Gill on Malachi 1:3)

we will go by the king's highway;
not the way in which the king used to walk, or which he should order them to walk in, as Aben Ezra; but the public roads, common to all his subjects, and travellers to walk in by his allowance; and such roads are now called by us the king's highway:

we will not turn to the right hand, or to the left;
to do any injury to any person's property, but go straight forward:

until we have passed thy borders;
from one to another, and got quite through the country.


FOOTNOTES:

F3 See Shaw's Travels, 4. 438. Ed. 2.
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Números 20:17 In-Context

15 como nossos pais desceram ao Egito, e nós no Egito habitamos muito tempo; e como os egípcios nos maltrataram, a nós e a nossos pais;
16 e quando clamamos ao Senhor, ele ouviu a nossa voz, e mandou um anjo, e nos tirou do Egito; e eis que estamos em Cades, cidade na extremidade dos teus termos.
17 Deixa-nos, pois, passar pela tua terra; não passaremos pelos campos, nem pelas vinhas, nem beberemos a água dos poços; iremos pela estrada real, não nos desviando para a direita nem para a esquerda, até que tenhamos passado os teus termos.
18 Respondeu-lhe Edom: Não passaras por mim, para que eu não saia com a espada ao teu encontro.
19 Os filhos de Israel lhe replicaram: Subiremos pela estrada real; e se bebermos das tuas águas, eu e o meu gado, darei o preço delas; sob condição de eu nada mais fazer, deixa-me somente passar a pé.
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