Numbers 32:15
Good News Translation
If you people of Reuben and Gad refuse to follow him now, he will once again abandon all these people in the wilderness, and you will be responsible for their destruction."

New Revised Standard Version
If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.”

Contemporary English Version
If you reject the LORD, he will once again abandon his people and leave them here in the desert. And you will be to blame!

New American Bible
If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will bring about the ruin of this entire people.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

if ye turn

Leviticus 26:14-18 But if you will not hear me, nor do all my commandments: . . .

Deuteronomy 28:15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee.

Deuteronomy 30:17-19 But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them: . . .

Joshua 22:16-18 Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him? . . .

2 Chronicles 7:19-22 But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them, . . .

2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him: Hear ye me, Asa, and all Juda and Benjamin: The Lord is with you, because you have been with him. If you seek him, you shall find: but if you forsake him, he will forsake you.

he will yet

Numbers 14:35 For as I have spoken, so will I do to all this wicked multitude, that hath risen up together against me: in this wilderness shall it faint away and die.

Numbers 14:30-35 Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my hand to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun. . . .

ye shall

Jeremiah 38:23 And all thy wives, and thy children shall be brought out to the Chaldeans, and thou shalt not escape their hands, but thou shalt be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and he shall burn this city with fire.

Matthew 18:7 Woe to the world because of scandals. For it must needs be that scandals come: but nevertheless woe to that man by whom the scandal cometh.

Romans 14:15,20,21 For if, because of thy meat, thy brother be grieved, thou walkest not now according to charity. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died. . . .

1 Corinthians 8:11,12 And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ hath died? . . .

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
14And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel. 15For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.16But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:…
Cross References
Numbers 32:16
But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:

Deuteronomy 30:17
But if thy heart be turned away, so that thou wilt not hear, and being deceived with error thou adore strange gods, and serve them:

Deuteronomy 30:18
I foretell thee this day that thou shalt perish, and shalt remain but a short time in the land, to which thou shalt pass over the Jordan, and shalt go in to possess it.

2 Chronicles 7:19
But if you turn away, and forsake my justices, and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve strange gods, and adore them,

2 Chronicles 7:20
I will pluck you up by the root out of my land which I have given you: and this house which I have sanctified to my name, I will cast away from before my face, and will make it a byword, and an example among all nations.

Numbers 32:14
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