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NUMBERS: CHAPTER
32-33
NUMBERS: CHAPTER
32
Reuben and
Gad Settle in Gilead
1 Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad
had an exceedingly large number of livestock. So when they saw the land
of Jazer and the land of Gilead, that it was indeed a place suitable
for livestock,
2 the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came
and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the
congregation, saying,
3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh,
Sebam, Nebo and Beon,
4 the land which the LORD
conquered before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock,
and your servants have livestock."
5 They said, "If we have found favor in your
sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession; do not
take us across the Jordan."
6 But Moses said to the sons of Gad and
to the sons of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to war while you yourselves
sit here?
7 "Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel
from crossing over into the land which the LORD
has given them?
8 "This is what your fathers did when I sent
them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.
9 "For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol
and saw the land, they discouraged the sons of Israel so that they did
not go into the land which the LORD had given
them.
10 "So the LORD'S
anger burned in that day, and He swore, saying,
11 'None of the men who came up from Egypt, from
twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham,
to Isaac and to Jacob; for they did not follow Me fully,
12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite
and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have followed the LORD
fully.'
13 "So the LORD'S
anger burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness
forty years, until the entire generation of those who had done evil
in the sight of the LORD was destroyed.
14 "Now behold, you have risen up in your fathers'
place, a brood of sinful men, to add still more to the burning anger
of the LORD against Israel.
15 "For if you turn away from following Him,
He will once more abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy
all these people."
16 Then they came near to him and said,
"We will build here sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our
little ones;
17 but we ourselves will be armed ready to
go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their
place, while our little ones live in the fortified cities because of
the inhabitants of the land.
18 "We will not return to our homes until every
one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.
19 "For we will not have an inheritance with
them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance
has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan toward the east."
20 So Moses said to them, "If you will
do this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD
for the war,
21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan
before the LORD until He has driven His enemies
out from before Him,
22 and the land is subdued before the LORD,
then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward the
LORD and toward Israel, and this land shall be
yours for a possession before the LORD.
23 "But if you will not do so, behold, you have
sinned against the LORD, and be sure your sin
will find you out.
24 "Build yourselves cities for your little ones,
and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."
25 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben
spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.
26 "Our little ones, our wives, our livestock
and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;
27 while your servants, everyone who is armed
for war, will cross over in the presence of the LORD
to battle, just as my lord says."
28 So Moses gave command concerning them
to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads
of the fathers' households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
29 Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and
the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with
you over the Jordan in the presence of the LORD,
and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land
of Gilead for a possession;
30 but if they will not cross over with you armed,
they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
31 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered,
saying, "As the LORD has said to your servants,
so we will do.
32 "We ourselves will cross over armed in the
presence of the LORD into the land of Canaan,
and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across
the Jordan."
33 So Moses gave to them, to the sons
of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son
Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom
of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their
territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
34 The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and
Aroer,
35 and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,
36 and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified
cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
37 The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh
and Kiriathaim,
38 and Nebo and Baal-meon—their names
being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the
cities which they built.
39 The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went
to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
40 So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of
Manasseh, and he lived in it.
41 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its
towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.
42 Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages,
and called it Nobah after his own name.
NUMBERS: CHAPTER
33
Review of
the Journey from Egypt to Jordan
1 These are the journeys of the sons of Israel,
by which they came out from the land of Egypt by their armies, under
the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
2 Moses recorded their starting places according
to their journeys by the command of the LORD,
and these are their journeys according to their starting places.
3 They journeyed from Rameses in the first month,
on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the next day after the Passover
the sons of Israel started out boldly in the sight of all the Egyptians,
4 while the Egyptians were burying all their
firstborn whom the LORD had struck down among
them. The LORD had also executed judgments on
their gods.
5 Then the sons of Israel journeyed from
Rameses and camped in Succoth.
6 They journeyed from Succoth and camped in Etham,
which is on the edge of the wilderness.
7 They journeyed from Etham and turned back to
Pi-hahiroth, which faces Baal-zephon, and they camped before Migdol.
8 They journeyed from before Hahiroth and passed
through the midst of the sea into the wilderness; and they went three
days' journey in the wilderness of Etham and camped at Marah.
9 They journeyed from Marah and came to Elim;
and in Elim there were twelve springs of water and seventy palm trees,
and they camped there.
10 They journeyed from Elim and camped by the
Red Sea.
11 They journeyed from the Red Sea and camped
in the wilderness of Sin.
12 They journeyed from the wilderness of Sin
and camped at Dophkah.
13 They journeyed from Dophkah and camped at
Alush.
14 They journeyed from Alush and camped at Rephidim;
now it was there that the people had no water to drink.
15 They journeyed from Rephidim and camped in
the wilderness of Sinai.
16 They journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai
and camped at Kibroth-hattaavah.
17 They journeyed from Kibroth-hattaavah
and camped at Hazeroth.
18 They journeyed from Hazeroth and camped at
Rithmah.
19 They journeyed from Rithmah and camped at
Rimmon-perez.
20 They journeyed from Rimmon-perez and camped
at Libnah.
21 They journeyed from Libnah and camped at Rissah.
22 They journeyed from Rissah and camped in Kehelathah.
23 They journeyed from Kehelathah and camped
at Mount Shepher.
24 They journeyed from Mount Shepher and camped
at Haradah.
25 They journeyed from Haradah and camped at
Makheloth.
26 They journeyed from Makheloth and camped at
Tahath.
27 They journeyed from Tahath and camped at Terah.
28 They journeyed from Terah and camped at Mithkah.
29 They journeyed from Mithkah and camped at
Hashmonah.
30 They journeyed from Hashmonah and camped at
Moseroth.
31 They journeyed from Moseroth and camped at
Bene-jaakan.
32 They journeyed from Bene-jaakan and camped
at Hor-haggidgad.
33 They journeyed from Hor-haggidgad and camped
at Jotbathah.
34 They journeyed from Jotbathah and camped at
Abronah.
35 They journeyed from Abronah and camped at
Ezion-geber.
36 They journeyed from Ezion-geber and camped
in the wilderness of Zin, that is, Kadesh.
37 They journeyed from Kadesh and camped at Mount
Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom.
38 Then Aaron the priest went up to Mount
Hor at the command of the LORD, and died there
in the fortieth year after the sons of Israel had come from the land
of Egypt, on the first day in the fifth month.
39 Aaron was one hundred twenty-three years old
when he died on Mount Hor.
40 Now the Canaanite, the king of Arad
who lived in the Negev in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of
the sons of Israel.
41 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor
and camped at Zalmonah.
42 They journeyed from Zalmonah and camped at
Punon.
43 They journeyed from Punon and camped at Oboth.
44 They journeyed from Oboth and camped at Iye-abarim,
at the border of Moab.
45 They journeyed from Iyim and camped at Dibon-gad.
46 They journeyed from Dibon-gad and camped at
Almon-diblathaim.
47 They journeyed from Almon-diblathaim and camped
in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.
48 They journeyed from the mountains of Abarim
and camped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho.
49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth-jeshimoth
as far as Abel-shittim in the plains of Moab.
Law of Possessing
the Land
50 Then the LORD
spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan opposite Jericho,
saying,
51 "Speak to the sons of Israel and say to them,
'When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants
of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and
destroy all their molten images and demolish all their high places;
53 and you shall take possession of the land
and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess it.
54 'You shall inherit the land by lot according
to your families; to the larger you shall give more inheritance, and
to the smaller you shall give less inheritance. Wherever the lot falls
to anyone, that shall be his. You shall inherit according to the tribes
of your fathers.
55 'But if you do not drive out the inhabitants
of the land from before you, then it shall come about that those whom
you let remain of them will become as pricks in your eyes and
as thorns in your sides, and they will trouble you in the land in which
you live.
56 'And as I plan to do to them, so I will do
to you.' " |
