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Numbers 32:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" 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 the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. "
Numbers 32:17
Verse in Context
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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;
17 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 the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance.
19 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 eastward.”
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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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