Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Holman Bible
Edom refused to allow Israel to travel through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.
International Standard Version
That's how Edom refused Israel passage through their territory. So Israel turned away from there.
American Standard Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
Amplified
Thus [the king of] Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.
Bible in Basic English
So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.
Darby Translation
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.
Julia Smith Translation
And Edom will refuse to give to Israel to pass over by his boundary; and Israel will turn away from him.
King James 2000
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: therefore Israel turned away from him.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, and Israel turned aside from him.
Modern King James verseion
So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And thus Edom denied to give Israel passage through his country; And Israel turned away from him.
NET Bible
So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.
New Heart English Bible
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
The Emphasized Bible
Thus did Edom refuse to give Israel passage through his boundary, - and Israel turned away from him.
Webster
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.
World English Bible
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
Youngs Literal Translation
and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.
Themes
journey of israel through the Desert » Obstructed, &c by the surrounding nations
Edomites » Refuse to the israelites passage through their country
Edomites, the » Refused israel a passage
Inhospitableness » Instances of » Toward the israelites » Edom
Israel » Edom » Refused » Passage
Selfishness » Examples of » Cain's cold-blooded words concerning abel
Interlinear
Nathan
G@buwl
References
American
Easton
Fausets
Hastings
Morish
Smith
Word Count of 20 Translations in Numbers 20:21
Verse Info
Context Readings
Edom Denies Passage
20 And he said, Thou shall not pass through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand. 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Therefore Israel turned away from him. 22 And they journeyed from Kadesh, and the sons of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to mount Hor.
Cross References
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 did not come within the border
Deuteronomy 2:29
as the sons of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me, until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which LORD our God gives us.
Deuteronomy 2:4-8
And command thou the people, saying, Ye are to pass through the border of your brothers the sons of Esau, who dwell in Seir, and they will be afraid of you. Take ye good heed to yourselves therefore.
Deuteronomy 2:27
Let me pass through thy land. I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
Deuteronomy 23:7
Thou shall not abhor an Edomite, for he is thy brother. Thou shall not abhor an Egyptian, because thou were a sojourner in his land.
Judges 11:24
Will thou not possess that which Chemosh thy god gives thee to possess? So whomever LORD our God has dispossessed from before us, them will we possess.