Numbers 32:7
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New International Version (©2011)
Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the LORD has given them?

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Why do you want to discourage the rest of the people of Israel from going across to the land the LORD has given them?

English Standard Version (©2001)
Why will you discourage the heart of the people of Israel from going over into the land that the LORD has given them?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Now why are you discouraging the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land which the LORD has given them?

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the LORD has given them?

International Standard Version (©2012)
"Why would you discourage the Israelis from crossing over to the land that the LORD has given them?

NET Bible (©2006)
Why do you frustrate the intent of the Israelites to cross over into the land which the LORD has given them?

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
That might discourage them from entering the land the LORD has given them.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

American King James Version
And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

American Standard Version
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Jehovah hath given them?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?

Darby Bible Translation
And why do ye discourage the children of Israel from going over into the land that Jehovah has given them?

English Revised Version
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

Webster's Bible Translation
And why discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?

World English Bible
Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?

Young's Literal Translation
and why discourage ye the heart of the sons of Israel from passing over unto the land which Jehovah hath given to them?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

32:6-15 The proposal showed disregard to the land of Canaan, distrust of the Lord's promise, and unwillingness to encounter the difficulties and dangers of conquering and driving out the inhabitants of that land. Moses is wroth with them. It will becomes any of God's Israel to sit down unconcerned about the difficult and perilous concerns of their brethren, whether public or personal. He reminds them of the fatal consequences of the unbelief and faint-heartedness of their fathers, when they were, as themselves, just ready to enter Canaan. If men considered as they ought what would be the end of sin, they would be afraid of the beginning of it.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Discourage. The verb נוא, translated "discourage" here and in verse 9, is of somewhat doubtful meaning. The Septuagint renders it by διαστρέφω, and perhaps the sense is, "Why do ye draw away the heart?" i.e., render it averse from going over.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel.... Which he suggests it would, should they settle on that side Jordan, since they would lose the assistance of two of their tribes, even two thirds of one of their standards in fighting with their enemies and subduing their land; and besides it might be thought that this request of theirs not only proceeded from selfish views and a love of ease, which might set a bad example to others, but carried in it a distrust of ever being able to enter into, at least to conquer and possess, the land of Canaan, and so might have a tendency to discourage their brethren:

from going over into the land, which the Lord hath given them? despairing of ever enjoying it, and so laying aside all thoughts of it, and not caring to make any attempt to get possession of it.

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Moses Reproves Reuben and Gad
6And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here? 7And why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them? 8Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land. …

Numbers 13:4 These are their names: from the tribe of Reuben, Shammua son of Zakkur;
Numbers 32:6 Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, "Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?