1Now 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;

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Numbers 21:32, Numbers 21:32, Numbers 32:35, Numbers 32:3, Genesis 13:10

2the 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,

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3"Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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Isaiah 16:8, Isaiah 16:9, Numbers 32:34, Numbers 32:38, Jeremiah 48:34

4the land which the Lord struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock."

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Numbers 21:34, Numbers 21:34, Deuteronomy 2:24, Deuteronomy 2:35, Numbers 21:24

5They said, "If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over the Jordan."

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Jeremiah 31:2, 2 Samuel 14:22, Deuteronomy 1:37, 1 Samuel 20:3, Genesis 19:19

6Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

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1 Corinthians 13:5, 1 Corinthians 13:5, Philippians 2:4, 2 Samuel 11:11, Philippians 2:4

7Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?

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Numbers 21:4, Deuteronomy 1:28, Acts 21:13, Numbers 13:27, Numbers 14:4

8Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

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Joshua 14:6, Joshua 14:7, Numbers 13:2, Numbers 13:26, Deuteronomy 1:19

9For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the Lord had given them.

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Numbers 13:23, Numbers 14:10, Deuteronomy 1:24, Deuteronomy 1:28, Numbers 13:23

10The Lord's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying,

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Numbers 14:11, Numbers 14:11, Numbers 14:21, Psalms 95:11, Numbers 14:29

11'Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

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Numbers 14:28, Numbers 14:30, Numbers 14:28, Numbers 14:30, Numbers 14:24

12except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have followed the Lord completely.'

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Deuteronomy 1:36, Deuteronomy 1:36, Numbers 14:30, Numbers 14:24, Numbers 14:30

13The Lord's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

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Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:35, 1 Corinthians 10:5, Numbers 14:33, Numbers 14:35

14"Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.

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Isaiah 57:4, Ezekiel 20:21, Luke 11:48, Nehemiah 9:24, Nehemiah 9:26

15For 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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1 Corinthians 8:11, 1 Corinthians 8:12, 2 Chronicles 15:2, 1 Corinthians 8:11, 1 Corinthians 8:12

16They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

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Genesis 33:17, Numbers 34:22, Genesis 33:17, Numbers 34:22

17but 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.

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Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:13, Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:13, Numbers 32:29

18We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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Joshua 22:1, Joshua 22:5, Joshua 22:1, Joshua 22:5

19For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward."

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Joshua 13:8, Joshua 13:8, Genesis 13:10, Genesis 13:12, Joshua 12:1

20Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

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Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:13, Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:13, Deuteronomy 3:18

21and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the Lord, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

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22and the land is subdued before the Lord; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards the Lord, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before the Lord.

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Joshua 22:9, Joshua 22:4, Joshua 22:9, Joshua 22:4, Deuteronomy 3:20

23"But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.

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Isaiah 59:12, Isaiah 59:12, Proverbs 13:21, Proverbs 13:21, Genesis 44:16

24Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth."

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Numbers 32:16, Numbers 32:16, Numbers 30:2, Numbers 32:34, Numbers 32:42

25The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.

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Joshua 1:13, Joshua 1:14, Joshua 1:13, Joshua 1:14

26Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

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Joshua 1:14, Joshua 1:14

27but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says."

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Joshua 4:12, Joshua 4:12, Numbers 36:2, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5

28So Moses commanded concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the children of Israel.

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Joshua 1:13, Joshua 1:13

29Moses said to them, "If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

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30but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."

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Joshua 22:19, Joshua 22:19

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

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32We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan."

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33Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and borders, even the cities of the surrounding land.

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Joshua 12:6, Joshua 12:6, Deuteronomy 3:12, Deuteronomy 3:17, Joshua 22:4

34The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

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Deuteronomy 2:36, Deuteronomy 2:36, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 33:45

35and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,

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Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:1, Numbers 32:3

36and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

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Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:3

37The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

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Numbers 32:3, Numbers 21:27, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 21:27, Isaiah 15:4

38and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

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Isaiah 46:1, Isaiah 46:1, Numbers 32:3, Numbers 32:3, Joshua 23:7

39The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

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Genesis 50:23, Genesis 50:23, Numbers 26:29, Joshua 17:1, Numbers 26:29

40Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

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Joshua 17:1, Joshua 17:1, Deuteronomy 3:13, Deuteronomy 3:15, Joshua 13:29

41Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth Jair.

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Deuteronomy 3:14, Deuteronomy 3:14, Judges 10:4, Judges 10:4, Joshua 13:30

42Nobah went and took Kenath, and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.

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Psalms 49:11, 2 Samuel 18:18, Psalms 49:11, 2 Samuel 18:18