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Numbers 32
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- Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a
very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the
land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
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- The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and
spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the
congregation, saying,
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- Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon,
and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
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- Even the country which the LORD smote before the
congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
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- Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy
sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us
not over Jordan.
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- And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the
children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
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- And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
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- Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
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- For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw
the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.
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- And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he
sware, saying,
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- Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from
twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham,
unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
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- Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua
the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
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- And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he
made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that
had done evil in the sight of the LORD, was consumed.
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- And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an
increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward
Israel.
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- For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again
leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
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- And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
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- But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones
shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
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- We will not return unto our houses, until the children
of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
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- For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan,
or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan
eastward.
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- And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if
ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
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- And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the
LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
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- And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward
ye shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this
land shall be your possession before the LORD.
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- But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against
the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.
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- Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for
your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
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- And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake
unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
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- Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
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- But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for
war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
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- So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel:
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- And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the
children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle,
before the LORD, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give
them the land of Gilead for a possession:
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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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- And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben
answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
- 32
- We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of
Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be
our's.
- 33
- And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad,
and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of
Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king
of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of
the country round about.
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- And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and
Aroer,
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- And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
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- And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds
for sheep.
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- And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh,
and Kirjathaim,
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- And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and
Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
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- And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to
Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
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- And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh;
and he dwelt therein.
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- And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small
towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
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- And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages
thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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