1 we finally turned and went into the desert, along the road to the Gulf of Aqaba, as the Lord had commanded, and we spent a long time wandering about in the hill country of Edom.
2 “Then the Lord told me
3 that we had spent enough time wandering about in those hills and that we should go north.
4 He told me to give you the following instructions: ‘You are about to go through the hill country of Edom, the territory of your distant relatives, the descendants of Esau. They will be afraid of you,
5 but you must not start a war with them, because I am not going to give you so much as a square metre of their land. I have given Edom to Esau's descendants.
6 You may buy food and water from them.’