“Let me pass through your land; I will keep strictly to the roadway. I will not turn aside to the right or the left.
Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth Desert to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:
Sell me food for cash so that I can eat and sell me water to drink. Just allow me to go through on foot,
You may purchase food to eat and water to drink from them.
Israel sent messengers to King Sihon, the Amorite king who ruled in Heshbon, and said to him, “Please allow us to pass through your land to our land.”