13. These are the waters of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with Yahweh, and he was sanctified in them.
14. 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;
15. how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time. The Egyptians mistreated us and our fathers.
16. When we cried to Yahweh, he heard our voice, sent an angel, and brought us out of Egypt. Behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the edge of your border.
17. “Please let us pass through your land. We will not pass through field or through vineyard, neither will we drink from the water of the wells. We will go along the king’s highway. We will not turn aside to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed your border.”
18. Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through me, lest I come out with the sword against you.”
19. The children of Israel said to him, “We will go up by the highway; and if we drink your water, I and my livestock, then I will give its price. Only let me, without doing anything else, pass through on my feet.”
20. He said, “You shall not pass through.” Edom came out against him with many people, and with a strong hand.
21. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border, so Israel turned away from him.
22. They traveled from Kadesh: and the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, came to Mount Hor.
23. Yahweh 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 into the land which I have given to the children of Israel, because you rebelled against my word at the waters 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. Aaron shall be taken, and shall die there.”
27. Moses did as Yahweh commanded. They went up into Mount Hor in the sight of all the congregation.