Numbers 32:24

Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

In Context

23But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.

25And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.

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Cross References

Numbers 30:2And he said to the princes of the tribes of the children of Israel: This is the word that the Lord hath commanded:

Numbers 32:34And the sons of Cad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

Matthew Henry on Numbers 32:17-28

16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: 17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land. 18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because… Read the whole commentary →

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