Numbers 32:24

build for yourselves cities for your infants and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth you do.”

Literal Standard Version

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

23And if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against YHWH, and know that your sin finds you;

25And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak to Moses, saying, “Your servants do as my lord is commanding;

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Cross References

Numbers 30:2When a man vows a vow to YHWH, or has sworn an oath to bind a bond on his soul, he does not defile his word; he does according to all that is going out from his mouth.

Numbers 32:34And the sons of Gad build Dihon, 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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