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


In Context

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.

Numbers 20:20 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

20:20Again they answered: "You may not pass through." Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful army.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

20:20But he answered: Thou shalt not pass. And immediately he came forth to meet them with an infinite multitude, and a strong hand,

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, Thou shalt not pass through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

20:20And he saith, 'Thou dost not pass over;' and Edom cometh out to meet him with much people, and with a strong hand;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

20:20And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand.