Numbers 20:18
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But Edom answered: “You may not pass through here; if you try, we will march out and attack you with the sword.”
Read Numbers 20:18 Using Other Translations
And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
But Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through, lest I come out with the sword against you."
But the king of Edom said, “Stay out of my land, or I will meet you with an army!”
What does Numbers 20:18 mean?
John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
Numbers 20:18
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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