Numbers 32:16
They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
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- Num 32:17-182 verses86%
17 but 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.
18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
- Num 32:24-274 verses83%
24 Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."
25 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
27 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says."
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36 and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
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15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people."
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2 They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for our livestock."
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16 They were a wall to us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.
- Num 32:30-323 verses73%
30 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
31 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, "As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan."
- Num 32:4-52 verses72%
4 the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."
5 They 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."
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26 "Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
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15 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
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32 These men are shepherds, for they have been keepers of livestock, and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.'
- Num 35:2-32 verses72%
2 "Command the children of Israel that they give to the Levites of the inheritance of their possession cities to dwell in; and you shall give suburbs for the cities around them to the Levites.
3 The cities shall they have to dwell in; and their suburbs shall be for their livestock, and for their substance, and for all their animals.
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22 You came near to me everyone of you, and said, "Let us send men before us, that they may search the land for us, and bring us word again of the way by which we must go up, and the cities to which we shall come."
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19 But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
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11 Our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, 'Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, "We are your servants. Now make a covenant with us."'
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16 then will we give our daughters to you, and we will take your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one people.
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24 "If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
- Num 32:1-22 verses71%
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for livestock;
2 the 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,
- Gen 34:22-232 verses71%
22 Only on this condition will the men consent to us to live with us, to become one people, if every male among us is circumcised, as they are circumcised.
23 Won't their livestock and their possessions and all their animals be ours? Only let us give our consent to them, and they will dwell with us."
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7 For he said to Judah, "Let us build these cities, and make walls around them, with towers, gates, and bars. The land is yet before us, because we have sought Yahweh our God; we have sought him, and he has given us rest on every side." So they built and prospered.
- Jer 42:13-142 verses71%
13 But if you say, We will not dwell in this land; so that you don't obey the voice of Yahweh your God,
14 saying, No; but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we shall see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there will we dwell:
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19 and what the land is that they dwell in, whether it is good or bad; and what cities they are that they dwell in, whether in camps, or in strongholds;
- Josh 8:5-62 verses70%
5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.
6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,
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3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"
- Num 10:31-322 verses70%
31 He said, "Don't leave us, please; because you know how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and you can be our eyes.
32 It shall be, if you go with us, yes, it shall be, that whatever good Yahweh does to us, we will do the same to you."
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13 Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
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35 only the livestock we took for a prey to ourselves, with the spoil of the cities which we had taken.
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10 It shall be, when Yahweh your God shall bring you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities, which you didn't build,
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8 If Yahweh delights in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it to us; a land which flows with milk and honey.
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10 Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it happen that when any war breaks out, they also join themselves to our enemies, and fight against us, and escape out of the land."
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10 You shall dwell with us, and the land will be before you. Live and trade in it, and get possessions in it."
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39 Moreover your little ones, whom you said should be a prey, and your children, who this day have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there, and to them will I give it, and they shall possess it.
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20 Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
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3 Shepherds with their flocks shall come to her; they shall pitch their tents against her all around; they shall feed everyone in his place."
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31 But your little ones, that you said should be a prey, them will I bring in, and they shall know the land which you have rejected.