Numbers 32:19
Good News Translation
We will not take possession of any property among them on the other side of the Jordan, because we have received our share here east of the Jordan."

New Revised Standard Version
We will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”

Contemporary English Version
The land on this side of the Jordan River will be ours, so we won't expect to receive any on the other side.

New American Bible
But we will not claim any heritage with them across the Jordan and beyond, because we have received a heritage for ourselves on the eastern side of the Jordan.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,

we will

Genesis 13:10-12 And Lot lifting up his eyes, saw all the country about the Jordan, which was watered throughout, before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, as the paradise of the Lord, and like Egypt as one comes to Segor. . . .

Genesis 14:12 And Lot also, the son of Abram's brother, who dwelt in Sodom, and his substance.

2 Kings 10:32,33 In those days the Lord began to be weary of Israel: and Hazael ravaged them in all the coasts of Israel, . . .

2 Kings 15:29 In the days of Phacee, king of Israel, came Theglathphalasar, king of Assyria, and took Aion, and Abel Domum Maacha, and Janoe, and Cedes, and Asor, and Galaad, and Galilee, and all the land of Nephthali: and carried them captives into Assyria.

1 Chronicles 5:25,26 But they forsook the God of their fathers, and went astray after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them. . . .

Proverbs 20:21 The inheritance gotten hastily in the beginning, in the end shall be without a blessing.

because

Numbers 32:33 Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about.

Joshua 12:1-6 These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness. . . .

Joshua 13:8 With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side.

on this side

Numbers 32:32 We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan.

Numbers 34:15 That is, two tribes and a half, have received their portion beyond the Jordan over against Jericho at the east side.

Joshua 1:14,15 Your wives, and children; and cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed before your brethren all of you that are strong of hand, and fight for them, . . .

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
18We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance: 19Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan, because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,20And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:…
Cross References
Joshua 12:1
These are the kings, whom the children of Israel slew and possessed their land beyond the Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the east country that looketh towards the wilderness.

Joshua 13:8
With whom Ruben and Gad have possessed the land, which Moses the servant of the Lord delivered to them beyond the river Jordan, on the east side.

Numbers 32:18
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