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Numbers 32:5
“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.”
Verse in context — Numbers 32
Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.
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.
Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?
Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
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