1 “Then we turned and set out toward the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea, as Yahweh told me, and we went around Mount Seir for many days.
2 Yahweh spoke to me, saying,
3 ‘Long enough you have been skirting this mountain; turn yourselves north,
4 and instruct the people, saying, “You are about to cross through the territory of your brothers, the descendants of Esau, who are living in Seir; they will be afraid of you, and so be very careful.
5 Do not get involved in battle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even a foot’s breadth of it; since I have given Mount Seir as a possession for Esau.
6 You shall buy food from them so that you may eat; and also you shall purchase water from them with money so that you may drink.