KJV King James Version
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
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Numbers 20:14
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
WEB World English Bible
Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, saying: “Thus says your brother Israel: You know all the travail that has happened to us:
ASV American Standard Version
And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And Moses sendeth messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, ‘Thus said thy brother Israel, Thou—thou hast known all the travail which hath found us;
Surrounding context — Numbers 20
11 And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his rod he smote the rock twice: and the water came out abundantly, and the congregation drank, and their beasts [also].
12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
13 This [is] the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
14 And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saith thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen us:
15 How our fathers went down into Egypt, and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians vexed us, and our fathers:
16 And when we cried unto the LORD, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we [are] in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:
17 Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink [of] the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s [high] way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
וַיִּשְׁלַ֨חH7971 · sha.lachto send: departמֹשֶׁ֧הH4872 · mo.shehMosesמַלְאָכִ֛יםH4397 · ma.le.akhmessengerמִקָּדֵ֖שׁH6946 · qa.deshKadeshאֶל־H413 · elto(wards)מֶ֣לֶךְH4428 · me.lekhkingאֱד֑וֹםH123 · e.domEdomכֹּ֤הH3541 · kohthusאָמַר֙H559 · a.marto sayאָחִ֣יךָH251 · achbrother: male-siblingיִשְׂרָאֵ֔לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelאַתָּ֣הH859 · at.tahyou(m.s.)יָדַ֔עְתָּH3045 · ya.dato knowאֵ֥תH853 · et[Obj.]כָּל־H3605 · kolallהַתְּלָאָ֖הH8513 · te.la.ahhardshipאֲשֶׁ֥רH834 · a.sherwhichמְצָאָֽתְנוּ׃H4672 · ma.tsato find
Cross-references
Judges 11:16-17But when Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea, and came to Kadesh;Deuteronomy 23:7Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he [is] thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian; because thou wast a stranger in his land.Genesis 32:3-4And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.Genesis 36:31-39And these [are] the kings that reigned in the land of Edom, before there reigned any king over the children of Israel.Malachi 1:2I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? [Was] not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,Obadiah 1:10-12For [thy] violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off for ever.Joshua 9:9And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,Deuteronomy 2:4-25And command thou the people, saying, Ye [are] to pass through the coast of your brethren the children of Esau, which dwell in Seir; and they shall be afraid of you: take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore:Exodus 18:8And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, [and] all the travail that had come upon them by the way, and [how] the LORD delivered them.
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