Verse 20

Numbers 32:20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

20 And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵי/הֶם֙ מֹשֶׁ֔ה אִֽם תַּעֲשׂ֖וּ/ן אֶת הַ/דָּבָ֣ר הַ/זֶּ֑ה אִם תֵּחָֽלְצ֛וּ לִ/פְנֵ֥י יְהוָ֖ה לַ/מִּלְחָמָֽה
English Translation
And Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will go before the Lord to war."
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Chapter 32 Context
1 And the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in beasts was infinite.... Focus ↗
2 They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said: Focus ↗
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon, and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon, Focus ↗
4 The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile so... Focus ↗
5 And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in poss... Focus ↗
6 And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here? Focus ↗
7 Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the plac... Focus ↗
8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from Cadesbarne to view the land? Focus ↗
9 And when they were come as far as the valley of the cluster, having viewed all the country, they ove... Focus ↗
10 And he swore in his anger, saying:. Focus ↗
11 If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land, which... Focus ↗
12 Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will... Focus ↗
13 And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them about through the desert forty years, until the wh... Focus ↗
14 And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful... Focus ↗
15 For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, end you shall be the cau... Focus ↗
16 But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities fo... Focus ↗
17 And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring th... Focus ↗
18 We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance: Focus ↗
19 Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east... Focus ↗
20 And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
21 And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies : Focus ↗
22 And all the land be brought under him, then shall you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel... Focus ↗
23 But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God (Elohim): and know ye, that... Focus ↗
24 Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomp... Focus ↗
25 And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord comman... Focus ↗
26 We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad: Focus ↗
27 And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest. Focus ↗
28 Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the famil... Focus ↗
29 If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war b... Focus ↗
30 But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell... Focus ↗
31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants... Focus ↗
32 We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already recei... Focus ↗
33 Moses therefore gave to the children of Cad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son... Focus ↗
34 And the sons of Cad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, Focus ↗
35 And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa, Focus ↗
36 And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their cattle. Focus ↗
37 But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim, Focus ↗
38 And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they... Focus ↗
39 Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off t... Focus ↗
40 And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it. Focus ↗
41 And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, th... Focus ↗
42 Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe. Focus ↗