Numbers 32:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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  • Num 32:16 : 16 Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;
  • Num 32:34-42 : 34 And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer; 35 And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah; 36 And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep. 37 And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim; 38 And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made. 39 And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there. 40 And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place. 41 And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair. 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.
  • Num 30:2 : 2 And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 32:15-17
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    83%

    15For 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.

    16Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

    17But 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.

  • Num 32:25-27
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    79%

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

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

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

  • Num 32:22-23
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    22And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

    23But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

  • Deut 3:19
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    19But 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 22:24-25
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    24And 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?

    25For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.

  • Deut 6:10
    72%

    10And 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 32:6-7
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    71%

    6And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

    7Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

  • Num 32:4
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    4The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

  • Num 32:36
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    36And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

  • Josh 21:2
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    2And 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.

  • Deut 32:46
    70%

    46Moses said to them, Let the words which I have said to you today go deep into your hearts, and give orders to your children to do every word of this law.

  • Num 32:29-31
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    29And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

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

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

  • Jer 29:5
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    5Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

  • Josh 1:14
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    14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be kept here in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but you, the fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers, armed, to give them help;

  • Deut 29:9
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    9So keep the words of this agreement and do them, so that it may be well for you in everything you do.

  • Num 35:2-3
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    2Give 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.

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

  • Deut 28:4
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    4A blessing will be on the fruit of your body, and on the fruit of your land, on the fruit of your cattle, the increase of your herd, and the young of your flock.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 12:28
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    28Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Num 32:1-2
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    70%

    1Now 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;

    2The 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,

  • Deut 1:39
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    39And 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.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11And your little ones, your wives, and the men of other lands who are with you in your tents, down to the wood-cutter and the servant who gets water for you:

  • Josh 24:13
    69%

    13And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting.

  • Deut 5:30
    69%

    30Now say to them, Go back to your tents.

  • Deut 11:21
    69%

    21So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • Num 35:9
    69%

    9And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Exod 12:32
    69%

    32And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be gone; and give me your blessing.

  • Deut 6:18
    69%

    18And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,

  • Num 32:20
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    20Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

  • Prov 24:27
    69%

    27Put your work in order outside, and make it ready in the field; and after that, see to the building of your house.

  • Deut 8:12
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    12And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;

  • Num 34:1
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    1And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Prov 27:23
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    23Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;

  • Deut 23:23
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    23Whatever your lips have said, see that you do it; for you gave your word freely to the Lord your God.

  • Gen 31:16
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    16For the wealth which God has taken from him is ours and our children's; so now, whatever God has said to you, do.

  • Deut 11:9
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    9And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.

  • Exod 10:24
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    24Then Pharaoh sent for Moses, and said, Go and give worship to the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be kept here: your little ones may go with you.