²⁶‘And I send messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth, unto Sihon king of Heshbon,—words of peace—saying, ²⁷Let me pass over through thy land; in the several ways I go; I turn not aside—right or left— ²⁸food for money thou dost sell me, and I have eaten; and water for money thou dost give to me, and I have drunk; only, let me pass over on my feet,— ²⁹as the sons of Esau who are dwelling in Seir, and the Moabites who are dwelling in Ar, have done to me—till that I pass over the Jordan, unto the land which Jehovah our God is giving to us.

³⁰‘And Sihon king of Heshbon hath not been willing to let us pass over by him, for Jehovah thy God hath hardened his spirit, and strengthened his heart, so as to give him into thy hand as at this day.

³¹‘And Jehovah saith unto me, See, I have begun to give before thee Sihon and his land; begin to possess—to possess his land.

³²‘And Sihon cometh out to meet us, he and all his people, to battle to Jahaz; ³³and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people; ³⁴and we capture all his cities at that time, and devote the whole city, men, and the women, and the infants—we have not left a remnant; ³⁵only, the cattle we have spoiled for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we have captured.

³⁶‘From Aroer, which is by the edge of the brook Arnon, and the city which is by the brook, even unto Gilead there hath not been a city which is too high for us; the whole hath Jehovah our God given before us.

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