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NU-32:1 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;
NU-32:2 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,
NU-32:3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon,
and Elealeh,
and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
NU-32:4 [Even] the country which the LORD smote before the
congregation of
Israel, [is] a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
NU-32:5 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.
NU-32:6 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?
NU-32:7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children
of Israel from
going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
NU-32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from
Kadeshbarnea to see the
land.
NU-32:9 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.
NU-32:10 And the LORD'S anger was kindled the same time, and he
sware,
saying,
NU-32:11 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:
NU-32:12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and
Joshua the son of
Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
NU-32:13 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.
NU-32:14 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.
NU-32:15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again
leave them in
the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
NU-32:16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here
for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
NU-32:17 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.
NU-32:18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children
of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance.
NU-32:19 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.
NU-32:20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if
ye will go
armed before the LORD to war,
NU-32:21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the
LORD, until he
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