Numbers 32 : 1 (LXXEN)
And the children of Ruben and the children of Gad had *Gr. cattle, a multitude, greatly a multitude a multitude of cattle, very great; and they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Galaad; and the place was a place for cattle:
Numbers 32 : 2 (LXXEN)
and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
Numbers 32 : 3 (LXXEN)
Ataroth, and Daebon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabau, and Baean,
Numbers 32 : 4 (LXXEN)
the land which the Lord has delivered up before the children of Israel, is pasture land, and thy servants have cattle.
Numbers 32 : 5 (LXXEN)
And they said, If we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and do not cause us to pass over Jordan.
Numbers 32 : 6 (LXXEN)
And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
Numbers 32 : 7 (LXXEN)
And why do ye pervert the minds of the children of Israel, that they should not cross over into the land, which the Lord gives them?
Numbers 32 : 8 (LXXEN)
Did not your fathers thus, when I sent them from Cades Barne to spy out the land?
Numbers 32 : 9 (LXXEN)
And they went up to the valley of the cluster, and spied the land, and turned aside the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land, which the Lord gave them.
Numbers 32 : 10 (LXXEN)
And the Lord was very angry in that day, and sware, saying,
Numbers 32 : 11 (LXXEN)
Surely these men who came up out of Egypt from twenty years old and upward, who know good and evil, shall not see the land which I sware to give to Abraam and Isaac and Jacob, for they have not closely followed after me:
Numbers 32 : 12 (LXXEN)
save Caleb the son of Jephonne, who was set apart, and Joshua the son of Naue, for they closely followed after the Lord.
Numbers 32 : 13 (LXXEN)
And the Lord was very angry with Israel; and for forty years he caused them to wander in the wilderness, until all the generation which did evil *Or, before in the sight of the Lord was extinct.
Numbers 32 : 14 (LXXEN)
Behold, ye are risen up in the room of your fathers, a *Or, an evil race, lit. a destruction; but some read, sustremma combination of sinful men, to increase yet farther the fierce wrath of the Lord against Israel.
Numbers 32 : 15 (LXXEN)
For ye will turn away from him to desert him yet once more in the wilderness, and ye will sin against this whole congregation.
Numbers 32 : 16 (LXXEN)
And they came to him, and said, We will build here folds for our cattle, and cities for our possessions;
Numbers 32 : 17 (LXXEN)
and we will arm ourselves and go as an advanced guard before the children of Israel, until we shall have brought them into their place; and our possessions shall remain in walled cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
Numbers 32 : 18 (LXXEN)
We will not return to our houses till the children of Israel shall have been distributed, each to his own inheritance.
Numbers 32 : 19 (LXXEN)
And we will not any longer inherit with them from the other side of Jordan and onwards, because we have our full inheritance on the side beyond Jordan eastward.
Numbers 32 : 20 (LXXEN)
And Moses said to them, If ye will do according to *Gr. this word these words, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle,
Numbers 32 : 21 (LXXEN)
and every one of you will pass over Jordan fully armed before the Lord, until his enemy be destroyed from before his face,
Numbers 32 : 22 (LXXEN)
and the land shall be subdued before the Lord, then afterwards ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and as regards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.
Numbers 32 : 23 (LXXEN)
But if ye will not do so, ye will sin against the Lord; and ye shall know your sin, when afflictions shall come upon you.
Numbers 32 : 24 (LXXEN)
And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.
Numbers 32 : 25 (LXXEN)
And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our lord commands.
Numbers 32 : 26 (LXXEN)
Our store, and our wives, and all our cattle shall be in the cities of Galaad.
Numbers 32 : 27 (LXXEN)
But thy servants will go over all armed and set in order before the Lord to battle, as our lord says.
Numbers 32 : 28 (LXXEN)
And Moses appointed to them for judges Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the chiefs of the families of the tribes of Israel.
Numbers 32 : 29 (LXXEN)
And Moses said to them, If the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad will pass over Jordan with you, every one armed for war before the Lord, and ye shall subdue the land before you, then ye shall give to them the land of Galaad for a possession.
Numbers 32 : 30 (LXXEN)
But if they will not pass over armed with you to war before the Lord, then shall ye cause to pass over their possessions and their wives and their cattle before you into the land of Chanaan, and they shall inherit with you in the land of Chanaan.
Numbers 32 : 31 (LXXEN)
And the sons of Ruben and the sons of Gad answered, saying, Whatsoever *Or, our Lord, or, our master, i. e. Moses the Lord says to his servants, that will we do.
Numbers 32 : 32 (LXXEN)
We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and ye shall give us our inheritance beyond Jordan.
Numbers 32 : 33 (LXXEN)
And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasse of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and *Gr. the cities its cities with its coasts, the cities of the land round about.
Numbers 32 : 34 (LXXEN)
And the sons of Gad built Daebon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
Numbers 32 : 35 (LXXEN)
and Sophar, and Jazer, and they set them up,
Numbers 32 : 36 (LXXEN)
and Namram, and Baetharan, strong cities, and folds for sheep.
Numbers 32 : 37 (LXXEN)
And the sons of Ruben built Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham,
Numbers 32 : 38 (LXXEN)
and Beelmeon, surrounded with walls, and Sebama; and they called the names of the cities which they built, after their own names.
Numbers 32 : 39 (LXXEN)
And a son of Machir the son of Manasse went to Galaad, and took it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt in it.
Numbers 32 : 40 (LXXEN)
And Moses gave Galaad to Machir the son of Manasse, and he dwelt there.
Numbers 32 : 41 (LXXEN)
And Jair the son of Manasse went and took their *Or, folds villages, and called them the villages of Jair.
Numbers 32 : 42 (LXXEN)
And Nabau went and took Caath and her villages, and called them Naboth after his name.

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