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23 But Sihon did not allow Israel to go through his territory. Sihon gathered all his people and went out to meet Israel; he came to the desert, to Jahaz, and he fought against Israel. 24 But Israel struck him with the edge of the sword, and they took possession of his land from Arnon to Jabbok, until the Ammonites,[a] because the boundary of the Ammonites[b] was strong. 25 Israel took all these cities, and Israel inhabited all the cities of the Amorites,[c] in Heshbon, and in all its environs.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 21:24 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  2. Numbers 21:24 Literally “sons of Ammon”
  3. Numbers 21:25 Hebrew “Amorite”
  4. Numbers 21:25 Hebrew “her daughters;” other modern versions translate “its villages”