25. ‘This day I begin to put the dread and fear of you upon the peoples under all the heavens, who, when they hear the report of you, shall tremble and shake because of you.’
26. “Then I sent messengers from the Wilderness of Qeḏĕmoth to Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon, with words of peace, saying,
27. ‘Let me pass over through your land on the highway. I shall go on the highway and turn neither to the right nor to the left.
28. ‘What food you sell me for silver I shall eat, and what water you give me for silver I shall drink. Only let me pass over on foot,
29. as the descendants of Ěsaw who dwell in Sĕ‛ir and the Mo’aḇites who dwell in Ar did for me – until I pass over the Yardĕn to the land יהוה our Elohim is giving us.’
30. “But Siḥon sovereign of Ḥeshbon would not let us pass over, for יהוה your Elohim hardened his spirit and strengthened his heart, to give him into your hand, as it is this day.
31. “And יהוה said to me, ‘See, I have begun to give Siḥon and his land over to you. Begin to possess – in order to possess his land.’
32. “And Siḥon and all his people came out against us to fight at Yahats,
33. and יהוה our Elohim gave him over to us, so we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.
34. “And we took all his cities at that time, and we put the men, women, and little ones of every city under the ban, we left none remaining.
35. “Only the livestock we took as plunder for ourselves, and the spoil of the cities which we captured.
36. “From Aro‛ĕr, which is on the edge of the wadi Arnon, and the city that is by the wadi, as far as Gil‛aḏ, there was not one city too high for us. יהוה our Elohim gave all to us.