¹⁷ Please ^(A)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 ^(A)Edom said to him, “You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword.”