Numbers 20:21
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New International Version (©2011)
Since Edom refused to let them go through their territory, Israel turned away from them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Because Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through their country, Israel was forced to turn around.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory, so Israel turned away from him.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Thus Edom refused to allow Israel to pass through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Edom refused to allow Israel to travel through their territory, and Israel turned away from them.

International Standard Version (©2012)
That's how Edom refused Israel passage through their territory. So Israel turned away from there.

NET Bible (©2006)
So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Since the Edomites refused to let Israel go through their territory, the Israelites turned around and went a different way.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: therefore Israel turned away from him.

American King James Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.

American Standard Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither would he condescend to their desire to grant them passage through his borders. Wherefore Israel turned another way from him.

Darby Bible Translation
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; and Israel turned away from him.

English Revised Version
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

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

Young's Literal Translation
and Edom refuseth to suffer Israel to pass over through his border, and Israel turneth aside from off him.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

20:14-21 The nearest way to Canaan from the place where Israel encamped, was through the country of Edom. The ambassadors who were sent returned with a denial. The Edomites feared to receive damage by the Israelites. And had this numerous army been under any other discipline than that of the righteous God himself, there might have been cause for this jealousy. But Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing; and now the hatred revived, when the blessing was about to be inherited. We must not think it strange, if reasonable requests be denied by unreasonable men, and if those whom God favours be affronted by men.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Notwithstanding their near relation to each other, and the fair promises Israel made:

wherefore Israel turned away from him: patiently bearing the refusal, and not resenting it; being ordered, as the Targum of Jonathan expresses it, by the Word of heaven, not to make war with them, because the time was not yet come to take vengeance on Edom by their hands; and to the same purpose the Targum of Jerusalem.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

21. Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, &c.—A churlish refusal obliged them to take another route. (See on [81]Nu 21:4; [82]De 2:4; and [83]Jud 11:18; see also 1Sa 14:47; 2Sa 8:14, which describe the retribution that was taken.)

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Edom Refuses Passage
…19And the children of Israel said to him, We will go by the high way: and if I and my cattle drink of your water, then I will pay for it: I will only, without doing anything else, go through on my feet. 20And he said, You shall not go through. And Edom came out against him with much people, and with a strong hand. 21Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: why Israel turned away from him.

Numbers 21:23 But Sihon would not let Israel pass through his territory. He mustered his entire army and marched out into the wilderness against Israel. When he reached Jahaz, he fought with Israel.
Deuteronomy 2:8 So we went on past our relatives the descendants of Esau, who live in Seir. We turned from the Arabah road, which comes up from Elath and Ezion Geber, and traveled along the desert road of Moab.
Judges 11:17 Then Israel sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Give us permission to go through your country,' but the king of Edom would not listen. They sent also to the king of Moab, and he refused. So Israel stayed at Kadesh.