Deuteronomy 3:2

וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֵלַי אַל־תִּירָא אֹתוֹ כִּי בְיָדְךָ נָתַתִּי אֹתוֹ וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּוֹ וְאֶת־אַרְצוֹ וְעָשִׂיתָ לּוֹ כַּאֲשֶׁר עָשִׂיתָ לְסִיחֹן מֶלֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִי אֲשֶׁר יוֹשֵׁב בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃

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✦ The same verse in five languages

Hebrew

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוָ֤ה אֵלַי֙ אַל־תִּירָ֣א אֹת֔וֹ כִּ֣י בְיָדְךָ֞ נָתַ֧תִּי אֹת֛וֹ וְאֶת־כָּל־עַמּ֖וֹ וְאֶת־אַרְצ֑וֹ וְעָשִׂ֣יתָ לּ֔וֹ כַּאֲשֶׁ֣ר עָשִׂ֗יתָ לְסִיחֹן֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ הָֽאֱמֹרִ֔י אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹשֵׁ֖ב בְּחֶשְׁבּֽוֹן׃

Greek (Septuagint)

καὶ εἶπεν Κύριος πρὸς μέ Μὴ φοβηθῇς αὐτόν, ὅτι εἰς τὰς χεῖράς σου παραδέδωκα αὐτὸν καὶ πάντα τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν αὐτοῦ· καὶ ποιήσεις αὐτῷ ὥσπερ ἐποίησας Σηὼν βασιλεῖ τῶν Ἀμορραίων, ὃς κατῴκει ἐν Ἑσεβών.

Greek text from Swete's edition, CC BY-SA 4.0

Latin (Vulgate)

Dixitque Dominus ad me: Ne timeas eum: quia in manu tua traditus est cum omni populo ac terra sua: faciesque ei sicut fecisti Sehon regi Amorrhæorum, qui habitavit in Hesebon.

Spanish

El Señor me dijo: “No le temas, porque lo he entregado, con todo su pueblo y su tierra, en tu mano. Harás con él lo que hiciste con Sehón, rey de los amorreos, que vivía en Hesbón”.

Classic Spanish (Reina-Valera 1909)

Y díjome Jehová: No tengas temor de él, porque en tu mano he entregado á él y á todo su pueblo, y su tierra: y harás con él como hiciste con Sehón rey Amorrheo, que habitaba en Hesbón.

English

But the LORD said to me, “ Do not fear him, for I have delivered him into your hand, along with all his people and his land. Do to him as you did to Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon.”

✦ What the text says

Summary

Yehovah addresses the speaker directly, telling him not to fear an unnamed enemy (Og, based on context) because he has already been given into his hand. The command extends to treating this king as was previously done to Sihon, king of the Amorites who lived in Heshbon.

Key words

ti.Ra' ("you fear", H3372G) — qal jussive with the negation 'al ("may not", H0408); this forms a direct prohibition, "do not fear," rather than a simple future negation.
na.Ta.ti ("I give", H5414G) — qal perfect, "I have given/delivered"; the completed aspect presents the outcome as already accomplished at the moment of speaking, even though the action (conquest) is still future for the addressee.
ya.de.Kha ("your hand", H3027H + H9021) — construct noun with pronominal suffix, literally "in hand-of-you," the idiomatic expression for being placed under someone's power or control.
'a.Si.ta ("you did", H6213A) — qal perfect, "you did/have done," referring back to a prior completed action (the treatment of Sihon), used as the standard of comparison for the new command 'a.Si.ta ("you will do", H6213A) earlier in the verse, marked as sequential perfect continuing the narrative.
yo.Shev ("dwelling", H3427) — qal participle, "the one dwelling/who dwells," describing Sihon's ongoing residence in Heshbon as a durative state rather than a completed event.

What the text says

The verse opens with the narrative vav on va.Yo.mer ("and he said", H0559), continuing the sequence of events from the preceding verses. The direct object marker 'oto (H0853 + H9033) appears three times, marking "him," "his people," and "his land" as the objects of na.Ta.ti ("I give", H5414G) — a perfect verb describing an action treated as already complete despite referring to a future military outcome. This grammatical choice presents the granting of victory as a settled fact rather than a promise contingent on future events.

The comparison clause uses ka.'a.Sher ("just as", H9004 + H0834D) to link the sequential perfect 'a.Si.ta ("you will do", H6213A) with the plain perfect 'a.Si.ta ("you did", H6213A) referring to Sihon. Both verbs share the same root and form (qal perfect, second person masculine singular), but the first functions as a sequential future ("you will do") continuing the narrative chain established by the vav, while the second refers strictly to a past completed action. The participle yo.Shev ("dwelling", H3427) describing Sihon's residence in Heshbon marks his location as an ongoing state at the time of the earlier conflict, distinguishing it from the completed actions surrounding it.

Differences between versions

The LXX renders na.Ta.ti ("I give", H5414G, qal perfect) with παραδέδωκα (perfect tense, "I have handed over"), matching the Hebrew's perfect aspect. The Vulgate uses traditus est ("has been delivered/handed over"), a passive construction, shifting the grammatical subject from "I" (Yehovah) in the Hebrew to an impersonal passive construction where the enemy "is delivered," rather than explicitly stating who delivers him.

This explanation describes the text using linguistic data; it adds no doctrine or confessional interpretation.