Numbers 32:1-9 ▼

1 Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great multitude of livestock: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that look, the place was a place for livestock;

2 the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

3 |Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sibmah, and Nebo, and Beon,

4 the land which the LORD struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock.|

5 They said, |If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not bring us over the Jordan.|

6 Moses said to the people of Gad, and to the people of Reuben, |Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

7 Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD has given them?

8 Your fathers did so when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

9 For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which the LORD had given them.