19. The Israelites answered: “We will go along the main road, and if we or our animals drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We only want to walk through. That’s all.”
20. But he answered: “You may not pass through here.”Then the Edomites went out to meet the Israelites with a large and powerful army.
21. The Edomites refused to let them pass through their country, so the Israelites turned back.
22. All the Israelites moved from Kadesh to Mount Hor,
23. near the border of Edom. There the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,
24. “Aaron will die. He will not enter the land that I’m giving to the Israelites, because you both acted against my command at the waters of Meribah.