“Let me pass through your country. I will travel only on the road. I will not turn aside either to the right or to the left.
So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with this offer of peace:
The food I eat you will sell me for money, and the water I drink, you will give me for money. Only let me march through,
You shall purchase from them with money the food you eat; even the water you drink you shall buy from them with money.
Then Israel sent messengers to the Amorite king Sihon, who was king of Heshbon. Israel said to him, “Let me pass through your land to my own place.”