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Nova Vulgata
Numeri 20:19
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Turpitudinem materteræ et amitæ tuæ non discooperies : qui hoc fecerit, ignominiam carnis suæ nudavit ; portabunt ambo iniquitatem suam.
Dixeruntque filii Israël: Per tritam gradiemur viam: et si biberimus aquas tuas, nos et pecora nostra, dabimus quod justum est: nulla erit in pretio difficultas, tantum velociter transeamus.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Deuteronomy 2:6, Deuteronomy 2:28
Reciprocal: 2 Samuel 20:13 - the highway
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the children of Israel said unto him,.... The messengers sent by the children of Israel made answer to the king of Edom:
we will go by the highway; we desire no other favour but that of the public road; we propose not to go through any part of the country that is enclosed and cultivated, to do any damage to it:
if I and my cattle drink of thy water, then I will pay for it; as it was usual, and still is, to buy water in those countries near the Red sea, where it is scarce. We are told d, that at Suess, a city on the extremity of the Red sea, there is no water nearer than six or seven hours journey towards the north east, which is brought from thence on camels; and a small vessel of it is sold for three or four medinas, and a larger vessel for eight or ten, according to the demand for it; a medina is an Egyptian piece of money, worth about three halfpence of our English money:
I will only (without doing anything else) go through on my feet; as fast as I can, without saying anything to the inhabitants to terrify and distress them, and without doing them any injury. Some render it, I will only go "with my footmen" e; foot soldiers, an army on foot, as Israel were.
d See a Journal from Cairo to Mount Sinai, p. 10, 11. Ed. 2. e ברגלי "cum meo exercitu pedestri"; so some in Fagius & Vatablus.
