17. Please let us cross through your land. We won’t pass through any field or vineyard, or drink water from any well. We will walk on the King’s Highway and not turn to the right or to the left until we have crossed your border.’"
18. Edom said to him, "You won’t cross through, or I will come out against you with a sword."
19. The Israelites said to him, "We’ll go up by the road. If we drink from your water, either we or our livestock, we’ll pay for it. It’s a small matter. We would only ask to cross on foot."
20. But he said, "You won’t cross." Then Edom came out against them with a powerful army and a strong hand.
21. Edom refused to allow Israel to cross his border. And Israel turned away from him.
22. They marched from Kadesh.The entire Israelite community came to Mount Hor.
23. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron at Mount Hor on the border of the land of Edom:
24. Aaron will join his ancestors, for he may not enter the land that I’ve given to the Israelites, because you rebelled against my command at the waters of Meribah.
25. Take Aaron and his son Eleazar, and bring them up Mount Hor.
26. Strip Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. Then Aaron will die there.
27. Moses did as the Lord commanded. They went up Mount Hor in the sight of the entire community.
28. Moses stripped Aaron of his clothes and put them on Eleazar his son. Aaron died there at the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar descended from the mountain.
29. When the entire community saw that Aaron had died, the entire household of Israel wept thirty days for Aaron.