Deuteronomy 3:19

But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

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In The King James Version

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, ( for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

In Context

18At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

20Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

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Cross References

Numbers 32:26Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 3:13-21

Allotment of the Conquered Lands. ( b. c. 1451.) 12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. 13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. 14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the coasts of Geshuri and… Read the whole commentary →

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