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14 Now look, you are standing in your fathers’ place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites. 15 For if you turn away from following him, he will once again abandon[a] them in the wilderness, and you will be the reason for their destruction.”[b]

The Offer of the Reubenites and Gadites

16 Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 32:15 tn The construction uses a verbal hendiadys with the verb “to add” serving to modify the main verb.
  2. Numbers 32:15 tn Heb “and you will destroy all this people.”
  3. Numbers 32:16 tn Heb “our little ones.”