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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Numbers 32 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/numbers/32.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/numbers/32-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Numbers 32</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../numbers/31.htm" title="Numbers 31">◄</a> Numbers 32 <a href="../numbers/33.htm" title="Numbers 33">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/numbers/32.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Reuben and Gad Settle in Gilead</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> struck down before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And they said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the Jordan.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But Moses said to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben, “Shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has given them? <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Your fathers did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the people of Israel from going into the land that the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> had given them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s anger was kindled on that day, and he swore, saying, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>‘Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land that I swore to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed me, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>none except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>’s anger was kindled 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 <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> was gone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And behold, you have risen in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> against Israel! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For if you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then they came near to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>but we will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>We will not return to our homes until each of the people of Israel has gained his inheritance. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> for the war, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, until he has driven out his enemies from before him <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>and the land is subdued before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>; then after that you shall return and be free of obligation to the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, and be sure your sin will find you out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> to battle, as my lord orders.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, “What the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> has said to your servants, we will do. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>We will pass over armed before the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the Jordan.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Moses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-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 and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>And the people of Gad built Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran, fortified cities, and folds for sheep. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And the people of Reuben built Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Nebo, and Baal-meon (their names were changed), and Sibmah. And they gave other names to the cities that they built. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he settled in it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their villages, and called them Havvoth-jair.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Havvoth-jair means the villages of Jair">a</a></sup></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/numbers/32-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah, after his own name.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">41</span> <i class="catch-word">Havvoth-jair</i> means <i>the villages of Jair</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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