17. Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through the fields or the vineyards, or drink of the water of the wells. We will travel the king’s highway. We will not turn to the right hand nor the left, until we have passed through your territory.”
18. Edom said to him,“You will not pass through me, lest with the sword I come out against you.”
19. The children of Israel said to him,“We will travel the highway, and if we and our livestock drink of your water, then we will pay for it. I will only go through on my feet without doing anything else.”
20. He said,“You will not go through.”And Edom came out against them with many people and with a strong hand.
21. Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.
22. They journeyed from Kadesh, and the children of Israel, even the whole assembly, came to Mount Hor.
23. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,
24. “Aaron will be gathered to his people because he will not enter into the land which I have given to the children of Israel because you rebelled against Me at the water of Meribah.
25. Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor,
26. and strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son, and Aaron will be gathered to his people, and he will die there.”
27. Moses did as the Lord commanded, and they went up onto Mount Hor in the sight of all the assembly.
28. Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son. And Aaron died there on the top of the mountain, and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
29. When all the assembly saw that Aaron was dead, they wept for Aaron thirty days, all the house of Israel.