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Nombres 20:17

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17 Laisse-nous passer par ton pays; nous ne traverserons ni les champs, ni les vignes, et nous ne boirons pas l'eau des puits; nous suivrons la route royale, sans nous détourner à droite ou à gauche, jusqu'à ce que nous ayons franchi ton territoire.

Nombres 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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Nombres 20:17 In-Context

15 Nos pères descendirent en Egypte, et nous y demeurâmes longtemps. Mais les Egyptiens nous ont maltraités, nous et nos pères.
16 Nous avons crié à l'Eternel, et il a entendu notre voix. Il a envoyé un ange, et nous a fait sortir de l'Egypte. Et voici, nous sommes à Kadès, ville à l'extrémité de ton territoire.
17 Laisse-nous passer par ton pays; nous ne traverserons ni les champs, ni les vignes, et nous ne boirons pas l'eau des puits; nous suivrons la route royale, sans nous détourner à droite ou à gauche, jusqu'à ce que nous ayons franchi ton territoire.
18 Edom lui dit: Tu ne passeras point chez moi, sinon je sortirai à ta rencontre avec l'épée.
19 Les enfants d'Israël lui dirent: Nous monterons par la grande route; et, si nous buvons de ton eau, moi et mes troupeaux, j'en paierai le prix; je ne ferai que passer avec mes pieds, pas autre chose.
The Louis Segond 1910 is in the public domain.

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