Verse 28
Deuteronomy 2:28
Bible in Basic English
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Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;
Original Language Text
hebrew
אֹ֣כֶל בַּ/כֶּ֤סֶף תַּשְׁבִּרֵ֨/נִי֙ וְ/אָכַ֔לְתִּי וּ/מַ֛יִם בַּ/כֶּ֥סֶף תִּתֶּן לִ֖/י וְ/שָׁתִ֑יתִי רַ֖ק אֶעְבְּרָ֥ה בְ/רַגְלָֽ/י
English Translation
"Food with money you will give me and I will eat, and water with money you will give me and I will drink; only let me pass through on foot."
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Chapter 2 Context
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Then we went back, journeying into the waste land by the way to the Red Sea, as the Lord had said to...
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And the Lord said to me,
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You have been journeying round this mountain long enough: now go to the north;
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And give the people orders, saying, You are about to go through the land of your brothers, the child...
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Make no attack on them, for I will not give you any of their land, not even space enough for a man's...
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You may get food for your needs from them for a price, and water for drinking.
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For the blessing of the Lord your God (Elohim) has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has...
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So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Araba...
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And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give...
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(In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;
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They are numbered among the Rephaim, like the Anakim; but are named Emim by the Moabites.
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And the Horites in earlier times were living in Seir, but the children of Esau took their place; the...
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Get up now, and go over the stream Zered. So we went over the stream Zered.
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Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over...
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For the hand of the Lord was against them, working their destruction, till all were dead.
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So when death had overtaken all the men of war among the people,
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The word of the Lord came to me, saying,
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You are about to go by Ar, the limit of the country of Moab;
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And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not m...
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(That land is said to have been a land of the Rephaim, for Rephaim had been living there in earlier...
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They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruc...
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As he did for the children of Esau living in Seir, when he sent destruction on the Horites before th...
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And the Avvim, living in the small towns as far as Gaza, came to destruction by the hands of the Cap...
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Get up now, and go on your journey, crossing over the valley of the Arnon: see, I have given into yo...
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From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be sha...
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Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of...
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Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;
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Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;
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As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into...
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But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God (Elohim) made his spi...
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And the Lord said to me, See, from now on I have given Sihon and his land into your hands: go forwar...
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Then Sihon came out against us with all his people, to make an attack on us at Jahaz.
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And the Lord our God (Elohim) gave him into our hands; and we overcame him and his sons and all his...
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At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, w...
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Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.
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From Aroer on the edge of the valley of the Arnon and from the town in the valley as far as Gilead,...
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But you did not go near the land of the children of Ammon, that is, all the side of the river Jabbok...
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