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Read Full Chapter (Numbers 32) Numbers 32:4 KJV
"Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:"
Numbers 32:4 in Context (Verses 1–7 KJV)
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Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
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The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
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Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,***
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Even the country which the LORD smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
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Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
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¶ And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
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And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?*