Numbers 32:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And 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?

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 11:11 : 11 And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.
  • 1 Cor 13:5 : 5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;
  • Phil 2:4 : 4 Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.

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  • Num 32:24-33
    10 verses
    86%

    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.

    28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

    29 And 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:

    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.

    33 So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

  • Num 32:7
    82%

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

  • Num 32:1-2
    2 verses
    81%

    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,

  • Num 32:20-21
    2 verses
    78%

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

    21 Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

  • Josh 22:9
    78%

    9 So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.

  • Num 32:5
    78%

    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 4:12
    77%

    12 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:

  • Josh 22:21
    76%

    21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,

  • Josh 22:15
    76%

    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,

  • Josh 1:12-15
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    75%

    12 And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

    13 Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.

    14 Your 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;

    15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has given it to you, and they have taken their heritage in the land which the Lord your God is giving them: then you will go back to the land of your heritage which Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you on the east side of Jordan.

  • Josh 22:25
    75%

    25 For 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.

  • Josh 22:1
    75%

    1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

  • Josh 12:6
    75%

    6 Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel overcame them; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their land for a heritage to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

  • Josh 22:33
    74%

    33 And the children of Israel were pleased about this; and they gave praise to God, and had no more thought of going to war against the children of Reuben and the children of Gad for the destruction of their land.

  • Josh 13:8
    74%

    8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them;

  • Josh 13:24
    73%

    24 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by their families.

  • Num 26:3
    73%

    3 So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,

  • Exod 32:26
    72%

    26 Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.

  • Num 34:16
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    16 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 31:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2 Give the Midianites punishment for the wrong they did to the children of Israel: and after that you will go to rest with your people.

    3 So Moses said to the people, Let men from among you be armed for war to put into effect against Midian the Lord's punishment on them.

  • Josh 18:7
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    7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.

  • Deut 1:42
    71%

    42 And the Lord said to me, Say to them, Do not go up to the attack; for I am not among you, and you will be overcome by those who are against you.

  • Josh 22:11-12
    2 verses
    71%

    11 And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.

    12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.

  • Deut 31:7
    71%

    7 Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they will take it for their heritage.

  • Josh 22:4
    71%

    4 And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

  • Num 10:29-30
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    71%

    29 Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of his father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, We are journeying to that place of which the Lord has said, I will give it to you: so come with us, and it will be for your profit: for the Lord has good things in store for Israel.

    30 But he said, I will not go with you, I will go back to the land of my birth and to my relations.

  • Deut 4:43
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    43 The names of the towns were Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan for Manasseh.

  • Num 14:3
    71%

    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?

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    42 And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,

  • Num 26:52
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    52 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Num 14:41
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    41 And Moses said, Why are you now acting against the Lord's order, seeing that no good will come of it?

  • Deut 29:8
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    8 And we took their land and gave it to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, for their heritage.