“Let us pass through your country. We’ll stay on the main road. We won’t turn off it to one side or the other.
I sent messengers from the Desert of Kedemoth. I told them to go to Sihon, the king of Heshbon. They offered him peace. They said,
We’ll pay you the right amount of silver for food to eat and water to drink. Just let us walk through your country.
Pay them with silver for the food you eat and the water you drink.’ ”
“Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon. He was the king of the Amorites. He ruled in Heshbon. They said to him, ‘Let us pass through your country to our own land.’