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.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Numbers 32:5 in context
Numbers 32:2–8
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Then 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,
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“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
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the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.”
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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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Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
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Why 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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Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
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