These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
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King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Numbers 32
Tanakh 42 verses
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Now the children of and the children of had a very great multitude of cattle; and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of , that, behold, the place was a place for cattle,
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- 2 the children of and the children of came and spoke unto , and to Eleazar the , and unto the princes of the congregation, saying:
- 3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
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the land which smote before the congregation of , is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle.’
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- 5 And they said: ‘If we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the .’
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And said unto the children of and to the children of : ‘Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?
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And wherefore will ye turn away the of the children of from going over into the land which hath given them?
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Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
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For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they turned away the of the children of , that they should not go into the land which had given them.
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And Yahweh’S anger was kindled in that day, and He swore, saying:
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Surely none of the men that came up out of , from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore unto , unto , and unto ; because they have not wholly followed Me;
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the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed .
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And Yahweh’S anger was kindled against , and He made them wander to and fro in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of , was consumed.
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- 14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, a brood of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of toward .
- 15 For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and so ye will destroy all this people.’
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And they came near unto him, and said: ‘We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;
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but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of , until we have brought them unto their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
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We will not return unto our houses, until the children of have inherited every man his inheritance.
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- 19 For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the , and forward, because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the eastward.’
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And said unto them: ‘If ye will do this thing: if ye will arm yourselves to go before to the war,
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- 21 and every armed man of you will pass over the before , until He hath driven out His enemies from before Him,
- 22 and the land be subdued before , and ye return afterward; then ye shall be clear before , and before , and this land shall be unto you for a possession before .
- 23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against ; and ye your sin which will find you.
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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.’
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And the children of and the children of spoke unto , saying: ‘Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
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Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of ;
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- 27 but thy servants will pass over, every man that is armed for war, before to battle, as my lord saith.’
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So gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the , and to the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of .
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- 29 And said unto them: ‘If the children of and the children of will pass with you over the , every man that is armed to battle, before , and the land shall be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of for a possession;
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but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of .’
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- 31 And the children of and the children of answered, saying: ‘As hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
- 32 We will pass over armed before into the land of , and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us beyond the .’
- 33 And gave unto them, even to the children of , and to the children of , and unto the half-tribe of the son of , the of Sihon of the Amorites, and the of Og of , the land, according to the cities thereof with their borders, even the cities of the land round about.
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And the children of built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer;
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and Atroth-shophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah;
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and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran; fortified cities, and folds for sheep.
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And the children of built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim;
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and Nebo, and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah; and gave their names unto the cities which they builded.
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And the children of Machir the son of went to , and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.
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And gave unto Machir the son of ; and he dwelt therein.
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And Jair the son of went and took the villages thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.
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And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own .
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