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Let us pass over, we pray thee, through thy land; we pass not over through a field, or through a vineyard, nor do we drink waters of a well; the way of the king we go, we turn not aside -- right or left -- till that we pass over thy border.'
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And Edom saith unto him, `Thou dost not pass over through me, lest with sword I come out to meet thee.'
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And the sons of Israel say unto him, `In the highway we go, and if of thy waters we drink -- I and my cattle -- then I have given their price; only (it is nothing) on my feet I pass over.'
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And he saith, `Thou dost not pass over;' and Edom cometh out to meet him with much people, and with a strong hand;
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and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.
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And the sons of Israel, the whole company, journey from Kadesh, and come in unto mount Hor,
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and Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron in mount Hor, on the border of the land of Edom, saying,
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`Aaron is gathered unto his people, for he doth not go in unto the land which I have given to the sons of Israel, because that ye provoked My mouth at the waters of Meribah.
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`Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and cause them to go up mount Hor,
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and strip Aaron of his garments, and thou hast clothed [with] them Eleazar his son, and Aaron is gathered, and doth die there.'
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And Moses doth as Jehovah hath commanded, and they go up unto mount Hor before the eyes of all the company,
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and Moses strippeth Aaron of his garments, and clotheth with them Eleazar his son, and Aaron dieth there on the top of the mount; and Moses cometh down -- Eleazar also -- from the mount,
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and all the company see that Aaron hath expired, and they bewail Aaron thirty days -- all the house of Israel.