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Num. 20:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

Anda Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom, Thus saithc thy brother Israel, Thou knowest all the travail that hath ζbefallen us:

Judg. 11:16‑17• ¹⁶When Israel came up from Egypt, and walked through the wilderness unto the Red Sea, and came to Kadesh,
¹⁷then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto. And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab: but he would not consent: and Israel abode in Kadesh. (Judg. 11:16‑17)

Deut. 2:4• ⁴And 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: (Deut. 2:4)

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found us.

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thy brother.

Gen. 32:3‑4• ³And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother into the land of Seir, the field of Edom.
⁴And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak to my lord, to Esau: Thy servant Jacob speaketh thus. With Laban I have sojourned and tarried until now; (Gen. 32:3‑4)

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Deut. 2:4‑25• ⁴And 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:
⁵take ye good heed unto yourselves therefore: meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land; no, not so much as a foot breadth; because I have given Mount Seir unto Esau for a possession.,
⁶Ye shall buy meat of them for money, that ye may eat; and ye shall also buy water of them for money, that ye may drink.
⁷For Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.
⁸And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion-gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.
⁹{i}And Jehovah said to me{/i}, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle: for I will not give thee of their land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.
¹⁰{i}(The Emim dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall as the Anakim.{/i}
¹¹{i}They also are reckoned as giants like the Anakim; but the Moabites call them Emim.{/i}
¹²{i}And in Seir dwelt the Horites in times past; and the children of Esau dispossessed them, and destroyed them from before them, and dwelt in their stead; as Israel did to the land of their possession, which Jehovah gave to them.){/i}
¹³{i}Now rise up, and pass over the torrent Zered. And we passed over the torrent Zered.{/i}
¹⁴{i}Now the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the torrent Zered, were thirty-eight years; until the whole generation of the men of war was consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah had sworn unto them.{/i}
¹⁵{i}Moreover the hand of Jehovah was against them to destroy them from the midst of the camp, until they were consumed.{/i}
¹⁶So it came to pass when all the men of war were consumed from among the people,
¹⁷that Jehovah spake unto me, saying,
¹⁸Thou art to pass over through Ar, the coast of Moab, this day:
¹⁹and when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them; for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon a possession; for unto the children of Lot have I given it as a possession.
²⁰(That also is reckoned a land of giants: giants dwelt therein in time past, and the Ammonites call them Zamzummim;
²¹a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;
²²{i}as he did to the children of Esau, who dwelt in Seir, from before whom he destroyed the Horites; and they dispossessed them, and dwelt in their stead, even to this day.{/i}
²³{i}And the Avvites who dwelt in the hamlets as far as Gazah—the Caphtorim, who came out of Caphtor, destroyed them, and dwelt in their stead.{/i})
²⁴Rise ye up, take your journey, and pass over the river Arnon: behold, I have given into thine hand Sihon the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and his land: begin to possess it, and contend with him in battle.
²⁵This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee. (Deut. 2:4‑25)

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Deut. 23:7• ⁷{i}Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother.{/i} Thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a stranger in his land. (Deut. 23:7)

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Obad. 10‑12• ¹⁰For thy violence against thy brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be cut off forever.
¹¹In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem even thou wast one of them.
¹²But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger, neither shouldest thou have rejoiced over the children of Judah in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress. (Obad. 10‑12)

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Mal. 1:2• ²I have loved you, saith Jehovah. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith Jehovah: yet I loved Jacob, (Mal. 1:2)

befallen us.

Heb. found us.

Ex. 18:8• ⁸{i}And Moses told his father-in-law all that Jehovah had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israel's sake; all the trouble that had befallen them on the way, and how Jehovah had delivered them.{/i} (Ex. 18:8)

J. N. Darby Translation

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us,

W. Kelly Translation

And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh to the king of Edom, Thus says thy brother Israel: Thou knowest all the trouble that hath befallen us,

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)