They crossed at the ford in order to help the king&#8217;s household cross and to do whatever he thought appropriate.p> <p class="bodytext">Now after he had crossed the Jordan, Shimei son of Gera threw himself down before the king.

<p class="bodytext">Abram traveled through the land as far as the oak tree<n id="1" /> of Moreh<n id="2" /> at Shechem.<n id="3" /> (At that time the Canaanites were in the land.)<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">He said, &#8220;My lord,<n id="1" /> if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by and leave your servant.<n id="2" />

So the gifts were sent on ahead of him<n id="1" /> while he spent that night in the camp.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">The sun rose<n id="1" /> over him as he crossed over Penuel,<n id="2" /> but<n id="3" /> he was limping because of his hip.

But Jacob<n id="1" /> himself went on ahead of them, and he bowed toward the ground seven times as he approached<n id="2" /> his brother.

Joseph<n id="1" /> made all the people slaves<n id="2" /> from one end of Egypt&#8217;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 <sc>Lordsc>.

You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech,<n id="1" /> so that you do not profane<n id="2" /> the name of your God. I am the <sc>Lordsc>!

But Moses said, &#8220;Why<n id="1" /> are you now transgressing the commandment<n id="2" /> of the <sc>Lordsc>? It will not succeed!

<p class="bodytext">But Edom said to him, &#8220;You will not pass through me,<n id="1" /> or I will come out against<n id="2" /> you with the sword.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">But he said, &#8220;You may not pass through.&#8221; Then Edom came out against them<n id="1" /> with a large and powerful force.<n id="2" />

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

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s presence, just as my lord says.&#8221;p>

But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.&#8221;

We will cross armed in the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;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.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

&#8220;Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway.<n id="1" /> I will not turn aside to the right or the left.

Sell me food for cash<n id="1" /> so that I can eat and sell me water to drink.<n id="2" /> 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,<n id="1" /> anyone who practices divination,<n id="2" /> an omen reader,<n id="3" /> a soothsayer,<n id="4" /> a sorcerer,<n id="5" />

so that you may enter by oath into the covenant the <sc>Lordsc> your God is making with you today.<n id="1" />