Numbers 32:14-16

American Standard Version

¹⁴ And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. ¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: