Numbers 32:14-16

New International Version - UK

¹⁴ ‘And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel. ¹⁵ If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the wilderness, and you will be the cause of their destruction.’

¹⁶ Then they came up to him and said, ‘We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.