This is the water of strife, because
the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified
upon them. And Moses sent messengers from Cades unto the king of
Edom. Thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the travail
that hath happened us, how our fathers went down into Egypt, and
how we have dwelt in Egypt a long time, and, how the Egyptians
vexed both us and our fathers. Then we cried unto the LORD and he
heard our voices, and sent an angel and hath fetched us out of
Egypt. And behold, we are in Cades, a city hard by the borders of
thy country: let us go a good fellowship thorow thy country: we
will not go thorow the fields nor thorow the vineyards, neither
will we drink of the water of the fountains: but we will go by the
highway and neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left,
until we be past thy country. And Edom answered him: See thou come
not by me, lest I come out against thee with the sword. And the
children of Israel said unto him: we will go by the beaten way:
and if either we or our cattle drink of thy water, we will pay for
it, we will do no more but pass thorow by foot only. And he said:
ye shall not go thorow. And Edom came out against him with much
people and with a mighty power.
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