Numbers 32:26
Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,
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- Josh 1:14 : 14 Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. You must help them
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- Num 32:16-183 verses82%
16 The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites Then they came very close to him and said,“We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,
17 but we will maintain ourselves in armed readiness and go before the Israelites until whenever we have brought them to their place. Our descendants will be living in fortified towns as a protection against the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has his inheritance.
- Num 32:24-252 verses82%
24 So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do.”
25 So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses,“Your servants will do as my lord commands.
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27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the LORD’s presence, just as my lord says.”
- Num 32:29-335 verses79%
29 Moses said to them:“If the Gadites and the Reubenites cross the Jordan with you, each one equipped for battle in the LORD’s presence, and you conquer the land, then you must allot them the territory of Gilead as their possession.
30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must receive possessions among you in Canaan.”
31 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites answered,“Your servants will do what the LORD has spoken.
32 We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”
33 Land Assignment So Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the realm of King Sihon of the Amorites, and the realm of King Og of Bashan, the entire land with its cities and the territory surrounding them.
- Num 32:1-66 verses77%
1 The Petition of the Reubenites and Gadites Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,
2 the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,
3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
4 the land that the LORD subdued before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”
5 So they said,“If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for our inheritance. Do not have us cross the Jordan River.”
6 Moses’ Response Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites,“Must your brothers go to war while you remain here?
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19 But your wives, children, and livestock(of which I know you have many) may remain in the cities I have given you.
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14 Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers. You must help them
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11 your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–
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9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the LORD’s command through Moses.
- Deut 2:35-362 verses72%
35 We kept only the livestock and plunder from the cities for ourselves.
36 From Aroer, which is at the edge of Wadi Arnon(it is the city in the wadi), all the way to Gilead there was not a town able to resist us– the LORD our God gave them all to us.
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3 Why has the LORD brought us into this land only to be killed by the sword, that our wives and our children should become plunder? Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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25 The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.
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16 Surely all the wealth that God snatched away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So now do everything God has told you.”
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9 Moses said,“We will go with our young and our old, with our sons and our daughters, and with our sheep and our cattle we will go, because we are to hold a pilgrim feast for the LORD.”
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15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, and said to them:
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23 If we do so, won’t their livestock, their property, and all their animals become ours? So let’s consent to their demand, so they will live among us.”
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26 Our livestock must also go with us! Not a hoof is to be left behind! For we must take these animals to serve the LORD our God. Until we arrive there, we do not know what we must use to serve the LORD.”
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28 The land allotted to the tribe of Gad by its clans included these cities and their towns.
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2 in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said,“The LORD told Moses to assign us cities in which to live along with the grazing areas for our cattle.”
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21 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the Israelite clans:
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13 But Jacob said to him,“My lord knows that the children are young, and that I have to look after the sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven too hard for even a single day, all the animals will die.
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12 The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them.
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21 and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence
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22 When their fathers or brothers come and protest to us, we’ll say to them,“Do us a favor and let them be, for we could not get each one a wife through battle. Don’t worry about breaking your oath! You would only be guilty if you had voluntarily given them wives.’”
- Gen 34:28-292 verses70%
28 They took their flocks, herds, and donkeys, as well as everything in the city and in the surrounding fields.
29 They captured as plunder all their wealth, all their little ones, and their wives, including everything in the houses.
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33 The Israelites were satisfied with their report and gave thanks to God. They said nothing more about launching an attack to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites lived.
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7 But all the livestock and plunder from the cities we kept for ourselves.
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24 The land of Judah will be inhabited by people who live in its towns as well as by farmers and shepherds with their flocks.
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32 The men are shepherds; they take care of livestock. They have brought their flocks and their herds and all that they have.’
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3 Thus they will have towns in which to live, and their grazing lands will be for their cattle, for their possessions, and for all their animals.
- Josh 2:13-142 verses69%
13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.”
14 The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”
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14 However, the women, little children, cattle, and anything else in the city– all its plunder– you may take for yourselves as spoil. You may take from your enemies the plunder that the LORD your God has given you.
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39 Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
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8 all Joseph’s household, his brothers, and his father’s household. But they left their little children and their flocks and herds in the land of Goshen.
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16 Then we will give you our daughters to marry, and we will take your daughters as wives for ourselves, and we will live among you and become one people.