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Numbers 32 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:1 - 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;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:2 - 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,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:3 - Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:4 - The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:5 - And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:6

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:6 - 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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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:7

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:7 - Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:8 - So did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:9

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:9 - For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:10 - And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:11 - Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:12 - But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:13 - Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:14 - And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:15 - For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:16 - Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:17 - But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:18 - We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:19 - For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:20 - Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:21 - Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:22 - And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:23 - But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:24 - So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:25 - And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:26 - Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:27 - But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:28 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:29 - 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:

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:30 - But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:31 - Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:32 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:33

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:33 - 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.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:34 - And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:35 - And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:36 - And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:37 - And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:38 - And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:39 - And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:40 - And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:41

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:41 - And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 32:42

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 32:42 - And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.
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