World English Bible
Numbers 32:16
“They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:”
Verse in context — Numbers 32
Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
They came near to him, and said, "We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
but 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.
We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
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Israel’s wilderness journey, marked by rebellion, discipline, and God’s faithfulness.
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