¹¹ ในวันที่เจ้ายืนเป็นปฏิปักษ์ ในวันที่คนต่างด้าวนำกำลังของเขาไปเป็นเชลย และคนต่างชาติเข้ามาทางประตูเมือง เขาจับสลากเอากรุงเยรูซาเล็มกัน เจ้าก็เหมือนคนเหล่านั้นคนหนึ่ง

¹⁴ Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: "Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:

¹⁵ how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:

¹⁶ and when we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt: and behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of your border.

¹⁷ "Please let us pass through your land: we will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go along the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border."

¹⁸ Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you."

¹⁹ The children of Israel said to him, "We will go up by the highway; and if we drink of your water, I and my livestock, then will I give its price: let me only, without [doing] anything [else], pass through on my feet."

²⁰ He said, "You shall not pass through." Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

²¹ Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.

²² They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.