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I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,
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Let me pass through your land: I will go along by the highway, I will turn neither to the right hand nor to the left.
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You shall sell me food for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only let me pass through on my feet,
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as the children of Esau who dwell in Seir, and the Moabites who dwell in Ar, did to me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Yahweh our God gives us.
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But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him; for Yahweh your God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into your hand, as at this day.
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Yahweh said to me, Behold, I have begun to deliver up Sihon and his land before you: begin to possess, that you may inherit his land.
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Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Jahaz.
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Yahweh our God delivered him up before us; and we struck him, and his sons, and all his people.
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We took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed every inhabited city, with the women and the little ones; we left none remaining:
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only the cattle we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.
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From Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and [from] the city that is in the valley, even to Gilead, there was not a city too high for us; Yahweh our God delivered up all before us:
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only to the land of the children of Ammon you didn`t come near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wherever Yahweh our God forbade us.