(Numb. 20:18:) BUT EDOM SAID UNTO HIM: YOU SHALL NOT PASS THROUGH ME. This text is related to Ps. 120:7): I AM FOR PEACE; BUT WHEN I SPEAK, THEY ARE FOR WAR.¹⁵⁴., Numb. 6:13. Where is it shown that the Holy One also told them that they would not permit you to pass, that everything is not due to them, but that it is I who wills it? Where it is stated (in Deut. 2:5): DO NOT ENGAGE THEM IN BATTLE, FOR I WILL NOT GIVE YOU ENOUGH OF THEIR LAND FOR EVEN THE SOLE OF A FOOT TO TREAD ON.

footnotes: ¹⁵⁴ Tanh