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Read Full Chapter (Numbers 32) Numbers 32:5 KJV
"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."
Numbers 32:5 in Context (Verses 2–8 KJV)
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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?*
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Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.