They crossed at the ford in order to help the king’s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate. Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree of Moreh at Shechem. (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)

He said, “My lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him while he spent that night in the camp.

The sun rose over him as he crossed over Penuel, but he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached his brother.

Joseph made all the people slaves from one end of Egypt’s border to the other end of it.

Everyone who crosses over to those numbered, from twenty years old and up, is to pay an offering to the Lord.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the Lord!

But Moses said, “Why are you now transgressing the commandment of the Lord? It will not succeed!

But Edom said to him, “You will not pass through me, or I will come out against you with the sword.”

But he said, “You may not pass through.” Then Edom came out against them with a large and powerful force.

So Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border; therefore Israel turned away from him.

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord’s presence, just as my lord says.”

But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”

We will cross armed in the Lord’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”

“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,

There must never be found among you anyone who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, anyone who practices divination, an omen reader, a soothsayer, a sorcerer,

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the Lord your God is making with you today.