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Numbers 32:14 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel. "

Numbers 32:14

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12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, because they have followed the LORD completely.’

13 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 evil in the LORD’s sight was consumed.

14 “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all these people.”

16 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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Judges 2:20

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"For the LORD of Armies, who planted you, has pronounced evil against you, because of the evil of the house of Israel and of the house of Judah, which they have done to themselves in provoking me to anger by offering incense to Baal."

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"So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs."

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Numbers 32:1

"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, the place was a place for livestock."

Numbers 32:2

"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,"

Numbers 32:3

"“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,"

Numbers 32:4

"the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”"

Numbers 32:5

"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.”"

Numbers 32:6

"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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