Numbers 32 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

The Tribes Settling East of the Jordan

Reuben and Gad Inherit East of Jordan

(Deut. 3:12–22 )

Num 32:1Now 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 indeed the region was a place for livestock,

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Num 32:2the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

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Num 32:3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Shebam, Nebo, and Beon,

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Num 32:4“the country which the LORD defeated before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.”

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Num 32:5Therefore they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.”

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Num 32:6And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben: “Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?

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Num 32:7“Now why will 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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Num 32:8“Thus your fathers did when I sent them away from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

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Num 32:9“For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, so that they did not go into the land which the LORD had given them.

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Num 32:10“So the LORD’s anger was aroused on that day, and He swore an oath, saying,

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Num 32:11‘Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me,

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Num 32:12‘except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the LORD.’

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Num 32:13“So the LORD’s anger was aroused against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was gone.

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Num 32:14“And look! You have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the LORD against Israel.

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Num 32:15“For if you turn away from following Him, He will once again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all these people.”

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Num 32:16Then 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“but we ourselves will be armed, ready to go before the children of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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Num 32:18“We will not return to our homes until every one of the children of Israel has received his inheritance.

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Num 32:19“For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has fallen to us on this eastern side of the Jordan.”

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Num 32:20Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

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Num 32:21“and all your armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven out His enemies from before Him,

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Num 32:22“and the land is subdued before the LORD, then afterward you may return and be blameless before the LORD and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD.

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Num 32:23“But if you do not do so, then take note, you have sinned against the LORD; and be sure your sin will find you out.

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Num 32:24“Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth.”

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Num 32:25And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying: “Your servants will do as my lord commands.

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Num 32:26“Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead;

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Num 32:27“but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before the LORD to battle, just as my lord says.”

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Num 32:28So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.

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Num 32:29And Moses said to them: “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for battle before the LORD, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead as a possession.

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Num 32:30“But if they do not cross over armed with you, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

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Num 32:31Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying: “As the LORD has said to your servants, so we will do.

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Num 32:32“We will cross over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of the Jordan.”

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Num 32:33So Moses gave to the children of Gad, to the children of Reuben, and to half the 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 with its cities within the borders, the cities of the surrounding country.

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Num 32:34And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,

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Num 32:35Atroth and Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

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Num 32:36Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

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Num 32:37And the children of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kirjathaim,

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Num 32:38Nebo and Baal Meon (their names being changed ) and Shibmah; and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

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Num 32:39And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

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Num 32:40So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelt in it.

Num 32:41

Num 32:41Also Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its small towns, and called them Havoth Jair.[fn]

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Num 32:42Then Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and he called it Nobah, after his own name.

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(32:41)

Literally Towns of Jair

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