Numbers 32:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

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Referenced Verses

  • Gen 33:17 : 17 And Jacob went on to Succoth, where he made a house for himself and put up tents for his cattle: for this reason the place was named Succoth.
  • Num 34:22 : 22 And of the tribe of the children of Dan, a chief, Bukki, the son of Jogli.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 32:17-18
    2 verses
    86%

    17 But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

    18 We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

  • Num 32:24-27
    4 verses
    83%

    24 So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

    25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.

    26 Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

    27 But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

  • Num 32:36
    77%

    36 And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

  • Num 32:15
    75%

    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

  • Josh 21:2
    74%

    2 And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle.

  • 1 Sam 25:16
    74%

    16 But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.

  • Num 32:30-32
    3 verses
    73%

    30 But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

    31 Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

    32 We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

  • Num 32:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4 The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

    5 And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

  • Josh 22:26
    72%

    26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • Josh 22:15
    72%

    15 And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them,

  • Gen 46:32
    72%

    32 And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

  • Num 35:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

    3 These towns are to be their living-places, with land round them for their cattle and their food and all their beasts,

  • Deut 1:22
    72%

    22 And you came near to me, every one of you, and said, Let us send men before us to go through the land with care and give us an account of the way we are to go and the towns to which we will come.

  • Deut 3:19
    71%

    19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

  • Josh 9:11
    71%

    11 So the responsible men and all the people of our country said to us, Take food with you for the journey and go to them, and say to them, We are your servants: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Gen 34:16
    71%

    16 Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.

  • Josh 22:24
    71%

    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

  • Num 32:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

    2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,

  • Gen 34:22-23
    2 verses
    71%

    22 But these men will make an agreement with us to go on living with us and to become one people, only on the condition that every male among us undergoes circumcision as they have done.

    23 Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.

  • 2 Chr 14:7
    71%

    7 He said to Judah, Let us make these towns, building walls round them with towers and doors and locks. The land is still ours, because we have been true to the Lord our God; we have been true to him and he has given us rest on every side. So they went on building and all went well for them.

  • Jer 42:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13 But if you say, We have no desire to go on living in this land; and do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God,

    14 Saying, No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will not see war, or be hearing the sound of the horn, or be in need of food; there we will make our living-place;

  • Num 13:19
    70%

    19 And what sort of land they are living in, if it is good or bad; and what their living-places are, tent-circles or walled towns;

  • Josh 8:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

    6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them away from the town; for they will say, They have gone in flight from us as before; so we will go in flight before them;

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3 Why is the Lord taking us into this land to come to our death by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will get into strange hands: would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?

  • Num 10:31-32
    2 verses
    70%

    31 And he said, Do not go from us; for you will be eyes for us, guiding us to the right places in the waste land to put up our tents.

    32 And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.

  • Gen 33:13
    70%

    13 But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

  • Deut 2:35
    70%

    35 Only the cattle we took for ourselves, with the goods from the towns we had taken.

  • Deut 6:10
    70%

    10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;

  • Num 14:8
    70%

    8 And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 1:10
    69%

    10 Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

  • Gen 34:10
    69%

    10 Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.

  • Deut 1:39
    69%

    39 And your little ones, who, you said, would come into strange hands, your children, who now have no knowledge of good or evil, they will go into that land, and to them I will give it and it will be theirs.

  • Num 32:20
    69%

    20 Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • Jer 6:3
    69%

    3 Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.

  • Num 14:31
    69%

    31 And your little ones, whom you said would come into strange hands, I will take in, and they will see the land which you would not have.