‘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.
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.’
You shall purchase food from them for money, so that you may eat, and you shall also buy water from them for money, so that you may drink.
“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to King Sihon of Heshbon with the following terms of peace:
You shall sell me food for money, so that I may eat, and supply me water for money, so that I may drink. Only allow me to pass through on foot—