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"^(ah)So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

‘Let me pass through your land, I will ^[q]travel only on the highway; I will not turn aside to the right or to the left.

You will sell me food for money so that I may eat, and give me water for money so that I may drink, ^(ai)only let me pass through on ^[r]foot,

just as the sons of Esau who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in ^(aj)Ar did for me, until I cross over the Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving to us.'

But ^(ak)Sihon king of Heshbon was not willing for us to pass ^[s]through his land; for the ^(al) Lord your God hardened his spirit and made his heart obstinate, in order to deliver him into your hand, as he is today.

The Lord said to me, ‘See, I have begun to deliver Sihon and his land ^[t]over to you. Begin to ^[u]occupy, that you may possess his land.'

"Then Sihon ^[v]with all his people came out to meet us in battle at Jahaz.

^(am)The Lord our God delivered him ^[w]over to us, and we ^[x](an)defeated him with his sons and all his people.

So we captured all his cities at that time and ^[y](ao)utterly destroyed ^[z]the men, women and children of every city. We left no survivor.

We took ^(ap)only the animals as our booty and the spoil of the cities which we had captured.

From ^(aq)Aroer which is on the edge of the ^[aa]valley of Arnon and from the city which is in the ^[ab]valley, even to Gilead, there was no city that was too high for us; the Lord our God delivered all ^[ac]over to us.

^(ar)Only you did not go near to the land of the sons of Ammon, all along the ^[ad]river ^(as)Jabbok and the cities of the hill country, and wherever the Lord our God had commanded us.