Deuteronomy 2:27

27 "Please let us pass through your land. We promise to stay on the road. We won't step off it, right or left.

Deuteronomy 2:27 Meaning and Commentary

Deuteronomy 21:27

Let me pass through thy land (See Gill on Numbers 21:22),

I will go along by the highway;
the king's highway, as in the place referred to, the public road:

I will neither turn to the right hand nor to the left;
to go into his fields and vineyards, and gather the fruit, or tread down the corn and vines, or do any manner of mischief to them; see the above place.

Deuteronomy 2:27 In-Context

25 Starting right now, I am making everyone everywhere afraid of you and scared of you. Once they hear news of you, they will be shaking and worrying because of you."

26 I then sent messengers from the Kedemoth desert to Sihon, Heshbon's king, with words of peace:

27 "Please let us pass through your land. We promise to stay on the road. We won't step off it, right or left.

28 Please sell us food for money so we can eat; sell us water for money so we can drink. Let us pass through on foot—

29 just as Esau's descendants who live in Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me—until we cross the Jordan River into the land that the LORD our God is giving to us."

Footnotes

• [a]. Heb here and through 2:29a is singular me, I.