Catholic Public Domain Version
"Therefore, I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, with peaceful words, saying: "
— Deuteronomy 2:26, Catholic Public Domain Version
“And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,”
“And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying, ”
“I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,”
“Defeat of Sihon, King of Heshbon Then I sent messengers from the Kedemoth wilderness to King Sihon of Heshbon with an offer of peace:”
“So I sent messengers from the wilderness of Cademoth to Sehon the king of Hesebon with peaceable words, saying:”
“Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,”
“And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,”
Likewise the Hevites, who were living in small villages as far as Gaza, were expelled by the Cappadocians, who went forth from Cappadocia, and they wiped them out and lived in their place.
‘Rise up and cross the torrent Arnon! Behold, I have delivered Sihon, the king of Heshbon, the Amorite, into your hand, and so, begin to possess his land and to engage in battle against him.
Today I will begin to send the terror and dread of you among the peoples who are living under all of heaven, so that, when they hear your name, they may be afraid, and may tremble in the manner of a woman giving birth, and may be gripped by anguish.’
Therefore, I sent messengers from the wilderness of Kedemoth to Sihon, the king of Heshbon, with peaceful words, saying:
‘We will cross through your land. We will advance by the public way. We will not turn aside, neither to the right, nor to the left.
Sell us food for a price, so that we may eat. Provide us with water for money, and so we will drink. We only ask that you allow us to pass through,
just as the sons of Esau have done, who live at Seir, and the Moabites, who abide in Ar, until we arrive at the Jordan, and we cross to the land which the Lord our God will give to us.’