The First Book of Moses, Commonly Called Numbers (WEB)
32: 1Now 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; 32:2the 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, 32:3Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and
Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon, 32:4the land which Yahweh
struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle. 32:5They
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. 32:6Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben,
Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here? 32:7Why discourage you the heart of the
children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them? 32:8Thus did your
fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 32:9For 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 the land which Yahweh had given them. 32:10Yahweh's anger was kindled in that
day, and he swore, saying, 32:11Surely 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 Jacob;
because they have not wholly followed me: 32:12save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and
Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh. 32:13Yahweh's anger was
kindled 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 sight of Yahweh, was consumed. 32:14Behold, you are
risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of
Yahweh toward Israel. 32:15For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the
wilderness; and you will destroy all this people. 32:16They came near to him, and said, We will build
sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 32:17but we ourselves will be ready
armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little
ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 32:18We will not return
to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 32:19For we will
not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is
fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. 32:20Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if
you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war, 32:21and every armed man of you will pass
over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 32:22and the
land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh,
and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh. 32:23But if you
will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
32:24Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded
out of your mouth. 32:25The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying,
Your servants will do as my lord commands. 32:26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; 32:27but your servants will pass over, every man who is
armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says. 32:28So Moses gave charge concerning
them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' houses of
the tribes of the children of Israel. 32:29Moses 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 Yahweh,
and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession: 32:30but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among
you in the land of Canaan. 32:31The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying,
As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do. 32:32We will pass over armed before Yahweh
into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the
Jordan. 32:33Moses 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 Sihon king of the Amorites, and the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with their borders, even the
cities of the land round about. 32:34The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, 32:35and
Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah, 32:36and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and
folds for sheep. 32:37The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim, 32:38and
Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to
the cities which they built. 32:39The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and
took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. 32:40Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son
of Manasseh; and he lived therein. 32:41Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns of it, and
called them Havvoth-jair. 32:42Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it
Nobah, after his own name.
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