Deuteronomy 2:26

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:

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Letters were sent wishing peace and security to all the Jews, to the one hundred twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus,

Then Israel sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, saying,

This was after he had defeated King Sihon of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, and King Og of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth in Edrei.

‘If you let me pass through your land, I will travel only along the road; I will turn aside neither to the right nor to the left.

and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

Kedemoth with its pasturelands, and Mephaath with its pasturelands—four towns.

Israel then sent messengers to King Sihon of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, ‘Let us pass through your land to our country.’