Deuteronomy 2:3-5

Good News Translation

³ that we had spent enough time wandering about in those hills and that we should go north. ^4 (A)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 foot of their land. I have given Edom to Esau's descendants.