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.^{(A) 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.^(B)”

¹⁶ Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens^(C) here for our livestock^(D) and cities for our women and children.