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Moses’ Response

Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Must your brothers go to war while you[a] remain here? Why do you frustrate the intent[b] of the Israelites to cross over into the land that the Lord has given them? Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 32:6 tn The vav (ו) is a vav disjunctive prefixed to the pronoun; it fits best here as a circumstantial clause, “while you stay here.”
  2. Numbers 32:7 tn Heb “heart.” So also in v. 9.