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28 Sell me food for cash[a] so that I can eat and sell me water to drink.[b] Just allow me to go through on foot, 29 just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the Lord our God is giving us.” 30 But King Sihon of Heshbon was unwilling to allow us to pass near him because the Lord our[c] God had made him obstinate[d] and stubborn[e] so that he might deliver him over to you[f] this very day.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 2:28 tn Heb “silver.”
  2. Deuteronomy 2:28 tn Heb “and water for silver give to me so that I may drink.”
  3. Deuteronomy 2:30 tc The translation follows the LXX in reading the first person pronoun. The MT, followed by many English versions, has a second person masculine singular pronoun, “your.”
  4. Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “hardened his spirit” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “made his spirit stubborn.”
  5. Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “made his heart obstinate” (so KJV, NASB); NRSV “made his heart defiant.”
  6. Deuteronomy 2:30 tn Heb “into your hand.”