Why wouldn't Edom let them pass?

Would it be that Moses smote the rock rather than spake to it?  

Numbers 20:18 - 21

NKJV - ¹⁸ Then Edom said to him, "You shall not pass through my land, lest I come out against you with the sword. ¹⁹ So the children of Israel said to him, "We will go by the Highway, and if I or my livestock drink any of your water, then I will pay for it; let me only pass through on foot, nothing more.

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