Numbers 32:21
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New International Version (©2011)
and if all of you who are armed cross over the Jordan before the LORD until he has driven his enemies out before him--

New Living Translation (©2007)
and if your troops cross the Jordan and keep fighting until the LORD has driven out his enemies,

English Standard Version (©2001)
and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven His enemies out from before Him,

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
and every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD until He has driven His enemies from His presence,

International Standard Version (©2012)
and every one of your armed soldiers crosses over the Jordan River in the presence of the LORD until he has dispossessed his enemies ahead of him

NET Bible (©2006)
and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Have them cross the Jordan, and fight until the LORD forces out his enemies

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

American King James Version
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

American Standard Version
and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Douay-Rheims Bible
And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies :

Darby Bible Translation
and all of you that are armed go over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he have dispossessed his enemies from before him,

English Revised Version
and every armed man of you will pass over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

Webster's Bible Translation
And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

World English Bible
and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

Young's Literal Translation
and every armed one of you hath passed over the Jordan before Jehovah, till his dispossessing His enemies from before Him,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:16-27 Here is the good effect of plain dealing. Moses, by showing their sin, and the danger of it, brought them to their duty, without murmuring or disputing. All men ought to consider the interests of others as well as their own; the law of love requires us to labour, venture, or suffer for each other as there may be occasion. They propose that their men of war should go ready armed before the children of Israel into the land of Canaan, and that they should not return till the conquest of Canaan was ended. Moses grants their request, but he warns them of the danger of breaking their word. If you fail, you sin against the Lord, and not against your brethren only; God will certainly reckon with you for it. Be sure your sin will find you out. Sin will surely find out the sinner sooner or later. It concerns us now to find our sins out, that we may repent of them, and forsake them, lest they find us out to our ruin.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord,.... Moses tries them thoroughly, and is very express in his words, requiring them not only to go armed, or march from the place where they were, towards the land of Canaan, but to go over Jordan, and not some of them only, but all, and that before the Lord; though indeed, when the tribes came to the river Jordan, the ark, which was the symbol of the divine Presence, went before all the tribes into it, and there stayed till they passed over, and then these two tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh passed before the children of Israel, and before the Lord, unto battle, Joshua 3:11.

until he hath driven out his enemies before him: the Canaanites, who were the enemies of the Lord, as well as of his people; and because of their sins, in which they showed their enmity to God, the land spewed them out, and he drove them out to make way for his people Israel, and till this was done the tribes of Reuben and Gad were to continue with them.

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Reuben and Gad Appease Moses
…20And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before the LORD to war, 21And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, 22And the land be subdued before the LORD: then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless before the LORD, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the LORD. …

Numbers 32:20 Then Moses said to them, "If you will do this--if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle
Numbers 32:22 then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free from your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the LORD.