By me Through my country: I will not suffer thee to do so; which was an act of policy, to secure themselves from so numerous a host. Said That is, their messengers replied what here follows.
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Numbers 20:18-19
18 And Edom said unto him, Thou shalt not pass by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword.
19 And the children of Israel said unto him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing any thing else, go through on my feet.