Numbers 20:14-21 And Moyses sent messengers from Cades vnto the kyng of Edom, thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trauayle that we haue had

Bishops⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹⁴ And Moyses sent messengers from Cades vnto the kyng of Edom, thus sayeth thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trauayle that we haue had ¹⁵ Our fathers went downe into Egypt, & we haue dwelt in Egypt a long tyme: and the Egyptians vexed vs and our fathers ¹⁶ And when we cryed vnto the Lorde, he hearde our voyce, and sent an angell, and hath set vs vp out of Egypt: And beholde, we are in Cades, euen in the vttermost citie of thy border ¹⁷ Let vs passe I pray thee through thy countrey: but we wyll not go through the fieldes or vineyardes, neither wyll we drynke of the water of the fountaynes: we wyll go by the kynges hye way, and neither turne vnto the ryght hande nor to the left, vntyll we be past thy borders ¹⁸ And Edom aunswered hym: Thou shalt not go by me, lest I come out agaynst thee with the sworde ¹⁹ The children of Israel sayd vnto him, we wyll go by the beaten way: and if I and my cattell drynke of thy water, I wyll pay for it: I wyll but only (without any harme) go through on my feete ²⁰ He aunswered: Thou shalt not go through. And Edom came out agaynst hym with much people, and with a mightie power ²¹ And thus Edom denied to geue Israel passage through his countrey: wherfore Israel turned away from hym