Numbers 20:14-21 (NKJV)
[14] Now Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom. “Thus says your brother Israel: ‘You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
[15] how our fathers went down to Egypt, and we dwelt in Egypt a long time, and the Egyptians afflicted us and our fathers. [16] When we cried out to the Lord, He heard our voice and sent the Angel and brought us up out of Egypt; now here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your border.
[17] Please let us pass through your country. We will not pass through fields or vineyards, nor will we drink water from wells; we will go along the King’s Highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left until we have passed through your territory.’”
[18] Then Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”
[19] So the children of Israel said to him, “We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.”
[20] Then he said, “You shall not pass through.” So Edom came out against them with many men and with a strong hand.
[21] Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his territory; so Israel turned away from him.
Part Seven: Aaron’s Death
Numbers 20:22-29 (NKJV)
[22] Now the children of Israel, the whole congregation, journeyed from Kadesh and came to Mount Hor.
[23] And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Mount Hor by the border of the land of Edom, saying:
[24] “Aaron shall be gathered to his people, for he shall not enter the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against My word at the water of Meribah.
[25] Take Aaron and Eleazar his son, and bring them up to Mount Hor;
[26] and strip Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; for Aaron shall be gathered to his people and die there.”
[27] So Moses did just as the Lord commanded, and they went up to Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.
[28] Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain. [29] Now when all the congregation saw that Aaron was dead, all the house of Israel mourned for Aaron thirty days.
