Numbers Chapter 32

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  Numbers.
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  Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock. They saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead. Behold...
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  Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying...
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  “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
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  the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
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  They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
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  Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
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  Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?
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  Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
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  For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into th...
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  The LORD’s anger burned in that day, and he swore, saying,
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  ‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jaco...
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  except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’
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  The LORD’s anger burned against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done ev...
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  “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
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  For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”
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  They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
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  but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in th...
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  We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.
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  For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan eastwa...
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  Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,
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  and every one of your armed men will pass over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
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  and the land is subdued before the LORD; then afterward you shall return, and be clear of obligation to the LORD and to Israel. Then this land shall b...
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  “But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.
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  Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
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  The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
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  Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
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  but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the LORD to battle, as my lord says.”
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  So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ households of the tribes of t...
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  Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle before the...
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  but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”
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  The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, “As the LORD has said to your servants, so will we do.
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  We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”
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  Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Si...
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  The children of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,
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  Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,
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  Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities and folds for sheep.
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  The children of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,
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  Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah. They gave other names to the cities which they built.
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  The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.
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  Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.
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  Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its villages, and called them Havvoth Jair.
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  Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.