Numbers 32
The Voice
32 Now it so happens that a couple of the tribes (the Reubenites and Gadites) had an exceptionally large herd of livestock. They observed that on this eastern side of the Jordan, in the regions of Jazer and Gilead, there was some excellent grazing land. 2 So the heads of the Reuben and Gad tribes approached Moses, the priest Eleazar, and other of the community’s leaders.
Reubenites and Gadites: 3-5 This territory, which the Eternal One has already enabled us to dominate, is for livestock land; and we have livestock. If it is pleasing to you, may we settle here instead of crossing the Jordan into the promised land? We’d like this territory to be ours (Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon) rather than laying claim to any territory across the Jordan.
Although slightly misunderstood by Moses, Reuben and Gad still express loyalty to the Lord and to their Israelite kin, but they like the prospects of settling in the fertile land that they will also share with the Ammonites, Moabites, and Edomites.
Moses: 6-9 You’re missing the big picture. How can I let you settle here on this side of the Jordan, while your kinsmen on the other side of the Jordan may have to go to war in order to possess the land? Why would you dishearten the rest of the people today just as the spies did who disheartened the people in the last generation after I sent them from Kadesh-barnea and they saw the Eshcol Valley and the surrounding land? 10 Remember how angry the Eternal became with them that day? He declared that 11-13 even though that particular land had been promised to the Israelites beginning with Abraham, then to Isaac and to Jacob after him, the whole generation that left Egypt when they were 20 years or older would have to die, wandering aimlessly in the desert, before God would allow the community to enter that great land. Only Caleb the Kenizzite (Jephunneh’s son) and Joshua (Nun’s son) out of that generation would be allowed to enjoy settlement there because they followed Him completely. 14 Now you dare to propose this—you’re as sinful as your predecessors! The Eternal will surely loose His tremendous anger against us again. 15 If you decide to stop following God’s plan for the land, He will abandon the whole congregation out here in the wilderness, and it’s you who will be blamed for our people’s destruction.
Reubenites and Gadites (approaching Moses): 16-19 What if we lay claim to the land here, but then proceed with the others west across the Jordan and into their land? We would fight alongside all the other Israelites, but we wouldn’t take any of that land for ourselves since our inheritance is on the eastern side of the Jordan. Only after we’ve seen to it that everyone else is safely settled there would we return here to take up our lives as residents of this place. We could set up preliminary dwellings now for our sheep and livestock and towns for our women and children. The towns should be fortified, since there are still inhabitants in the land who would like to run us out. We really feel that we’ve found our home here, east of the Jordan.
Moses: 20 If you keep your word—to fight with us before the Eternal One Himself 21 until by our warfare God drives out His enemies 22 and that land becomes undeniably ours—then, yes. Then you will have satisfied your responsibilities to the Eternal and to Israel, and you may count this land as your own. 23 But if you fail to follow through, your sin against the Eternal will follow you. Wherever you go, it will go badly for you. 24 Then go ahead and build the enclosures you need for your flocks and the cities for your youngsters that you’ll leave behind. But don’t forget to live up to your promise.
Reubenites and Gadites: 25 We are your servants, our lord, and we’ll do as you tell us. 26 Here in Gilead, we’ll get our women and the little kids settled along with all of our animals. 27 Then you can count on us, armed and ready to battle for the Eternal. We will obey your orders and see to it that the other families successfully gain their own territory.
28 Moses gave instructions to Eleazar the priest, Joshua (Nun’s son), and the heads of the other extended families of the Israelite clans.
Moses: 29 If indeed the Gadites and Reubenites fight in front of the Eternal One and beside the rest of you to successfully dominate that land across the Jordan River, then you must honor their desire to return here to have this Gilead land for their own. 30 But if they don’t take up their weapons and go with you into battle, then their ownership of this territory is null and void, and they shall be assigned land in Canaan along with the rest of the Israelite tribes.
Reubenites and Gadites: 31 Exactly as we understand this to be the will of God, we will do it. 32 We’ll arm ourselves and fight with you under His direction in Canaan, but with the understanding that our home is right here, on this side of the Jordan River.
33 With this agreement established, Moses gave the Gadites and the Reubenites, along with Manasseh (half of the greater Joseph clan), King Sihon’s Amorite land and King Og’s Bashan land, including the cities and their neighboring towns inside those boundaries. 34 The Gadites immediately got to work rebuilding the cities of Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, 35 Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, 36 Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran with strong defenses and enclosures for their livestock. 37 As for the Reubenites, they rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim, 38 Nebo, Baal-meon, and Sibmah. They gave names to each of the new cities and changed the names of those they rebuilt. 39 As far as the Manasseh family goes, Machir’s clan overran the Amorites in Gilead, 40 so Moses gave them that land to live in. 41 Jair’s Manassite clan also captured settlements for themselves and named them Havvoth-jair, 42 and Nobah took over the former Kenath with its surrounding villages and renamed it Nobah, after their own clan.
Numeri 32
Het Boek
Ruben en Gad
32 Toen het volk Israël in het land van Jazer en Gilead aankwam, viel het de stammen van Ruben en Gad, die beide grote schaapskudden bezaten, op wat een prachtig land dat voor hun schapen was. 2 Daarom gingen zij naar Mozes, de priester Eleazar en de andere stamleiders en zeiden: 3,4 ‘De Here heeft Israël gebruikt om de inwoners van deze hele streek te vernietigen: Atarot, Dibon, Jazer, Nimra, Chesbon, Eleále, Sebam, Nebo en Beon. De hele streek is uitstekend geschikt voor schapen, ideaal voor onze kudden. 5 Sta ons alstublieft toe dat wij deze streek als ons deel nemen in plaats van het land aan de andere kant van de Jordaan.’ 6 ‘Willen jullie hier met de armen over elkaar blijven zitten, terwijl jullie broeders de rivier oversteken en aan de overkant de kastanjes uit het vuur halen?’ wilde Mozes van hen weten. 7 ‘Zijn jullie van plan het hele volk te ontmoedigen, zodat het niet durft over te steken naar het land dat de Here het heeft gegeven? 8 Jullie gaan jullie vaders achterna! Ik stuurde hen vanuit Kades-Barnea op een verkenningstocht, 9 maar toen zij genoeg hadden gezien en terugkeerden vanuit het dal van Eskol, ontmoedigden zij de Israëlieten zó dat deze het beloofde land niet durfden binnentrekken. 10,11 De toorn van de Here keerde zich in alle hevigheid tegen hen en Hij zwoer dat van allen die Hij uit Egypte had gered, niemand boven de twintig jaar het land dat Hij aan Abraham, Isaak en Jakob had beloofd, zou zien hoewel de Here deze belofte met een eed had bekrachtigd. Maar zij hadden geweigerd te doen wat Hij van hen had gevraagd. 12 De enige uitzonderingen daarop waren Kaleb en Jozua, want zij volgden de Here met hun hele hart en riepen het volk op het beloofde land binnen te trekken. 13 De Here liet ons veertig jaar in de woestijn heen en weer zwerven tot die opstandige generatie was gestorven. 14 En hier staan jullie weer, een stel zondaars dat precies hetzelfde doet! Nu zijn er alleen meer van jullie, dus de toorn van de Here zal deze keer nog heviger zijn dan de vorige keer. 15 Als jullie je op deze manier van de Here afkeren, zal Hij het volk nog langer in de woestijn laten blijven. Jullie zullen verantwoordelijk zijn voor de vernietiging van zijn volk en een ramp over deze hele natie brengen!’ 16 ‘Maar dat bedoelden we helemaal niet!’ begonnen zij haastig uit te leggen. ‘Wij zullen hier schaapskooien voor onze kudden en steden voor onze kinderen bouwen, 17 maar wijzelf gaan gewapend met jullie mee, aan het hoofd van het leger, totdat jullie veilig bij jullie erfdeel zijn aangekomen. Maar dan moeten wij hier eerst ommuurde steden voor onze gezinnen bouwen om hen te beschermen tegen aanvallen van de plaatselijke bevolking. 18 Wij zullen ons hier niet vestigen voordat het hele volk Israël zijn erfdeel heeft gekregen. 19 Wij willen geen land aan de overkant van de Jordaan, wij hebben het liever hier, ten oosten van de rivier.’
20 Toen zei Mozes: ‘Goed, als jullie doen wat jullie hebben gezegd en de wapens ter hand nemen om de oorlog van de Here te voeren 21 en jullie troepen aan de overzijde van de Jordaan houden tot Hij onze vijanden heeft verdreven, 22 dan mogen jullie, als het land helemaal aan de Here is onderworpen, terugkeren. Dan hebben jullie je plicht gedaan tegenover de Here en de rest van het volk Israël. En het land aan de oostzijde van de Jordaan zal jullie bezit zijn van de Here. 23 Maar als jullie niet doen wat jullie hebben gezegd, zullen jullie tegen de Here hebben gezondigd en de straf voor die zonde niet ontlopen. 24 Vooruit maar, bouw schaapskooien voor de kudden en steden voor de gezinnen en doe wat jullie hebben gezegd.’
25 ‘We zullen uw aanwijzingen precies opvolgen,’ beloofden de mannen van Gad en Ruben. 26 ‘Onze kinderen, vrouwen, kudden en het vee zullen hier in de steden van Gilead blijven. 27 Maar al onze strijders zullen oversteken om voor de Here te vechten, precies zoals u hebt gezegd.’
28 Toen gaf Mozes zijn toestemming en zei tegen de priester Eleazar, Jozua en de stamleiders van Israël: 29 ‘Als alle mannen van de stammen Gad en Ruben die zijn aangewezen om voor de Here te vechten, met jullie de Jordaan oversteken, moeten jullie als het hele land is veroverd, hun het land Gilead geven. 30 Maar als zij weigeren met jullie op te trekken voor de strijd, moeten zij genoegen nemen met land tussen de rest van de stammen in het land Kanaän.’ 31 En de stammen van Gad en Ruben zeiden opnieuw: ‘Wat de Here ons heeft opgedragen, zullen wij doen. 32 Wij zullen de Here volledig bewapend in Kanaän volgen, maar ons eigen land zal hier zijn aan deze kant van de Jordaan.’ 33 Zo wees Mozes het land van koning Sichon van de Amorieten en koning Og van Basan—al het land en de steden—toe aan de stammen Gad, Ruben en de tak van Manasse, de zoon van Jozef. 34-36 De stam van Gad bouwde de volgende steden: Dibon, Atarot, Aroër, Atrot-Sofan, Jazer, Jogbeha, Bet-Nimra en Bet-Haran. Dit waren ommuurde steden met schaapskooien. 37,38 De stam van Ruben bouwde de steden Chesbon, Eleále, Kirjataïm, Nebo, Baäl-Meon, Musabboth-Sem en Sibma. Later gaven de Israëlieten deze steden, die zij eerst hadden veroverd en verwoest, andere namen. 39 En de familie van Machir, een deel van de stam Manasse, trok naar Gilead en veroverde het. Zij verdreven de Amorieten die daar woonden. 40 Daarom gaf Mozes Gilead aan de Machirieten en zij vestigden zich daar. 41 De mannen van Jaïr, een ander deel van de stam van Manasse, veroverden vele steden en dorpen in Gilead en veranderden de naam van dat gebied in Havvoth-Jaïr (Dorpen van Jaïr). 42 In diezelfde tijd leidde een zekere Nobach een leger naar Kenat en de omliggende dorpen en veroverde dat gebied. Hij noemde het gebied Nobach, naar zichzelf.
民数记 32
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
河东的支派求地业(A)
32 流本子孙和迦得子孙的牲畜极其众多;他们看见雅谢地和基列地都是可牧放牲畜的地方, 2 就来对摩西和以利亚撒祭司,以及会众的首领说: 3 “亚大录、底本、雅谢、宁拉、希实本、以利亚利、示班、尼波、比稳, 4 就是耶和华在以色列会众面前攻取的地,是可牧放牲畜的地,你仆人也有牲畜。” 5 他们又说:“如果我们在你眼前蒙恩,求你把这地给你的仆人作产业,不要叫我们过约旦河。”
6 摩西对迦得子孙和流本子孙说:“难道你们的兄弟去打仗,你们却坐在这里吗? 7 你们为甚么使以色列人灰心,不过河到耶和华赐给他们的地那里去呢? 8 我从前从加低斯.巴尼亚派你们的先祖去窥探那地的时候,他们也是这样行。 9 他们上到以实各谷,看了那地,就使以色列人灰心,不进耶和华赐给他们的地那里去。 10 当日耶和华的怒气发作,就起誓说: 11 ‘从埃及上来二十岁及以上的人,必不得看见我对亚伯拉罕、以撒、雅各起誓应许的地,因为他们没有专心跟从我。 12 唯独基尼洗人耶孚尼的儿子迦勒,和嫩的儿子约书亚可以看见,因为他们专心跟从耶和华。’ 13 耶和华的怒气向以色列人发作,使他们在旷野飘流了四十年,等到在耶和华眼前行恶的那一代都灭尽了。 14 现在,你们这些罪人的族类,也来接替你们的先祖,增添耶和华对以色列的烈怒! 15 如果你们转离,不跟从他,他再要把以色列人撇在旷野,这样,你们就要把整个民族都毁灭了。”
16 两支派的人走到摩西跟前,对他说:“我们要在这里给我们的牲畜筑羊圈,给我们的孩子建城邑。 17 我们自己却要武装起来,行在以色列人前头上阵,直到把他们领到他们自己的地方,但我们的孩子因为这地居民的缘故,要住在坚固的城里。 18 我们决不回家,直等到以色列人各自承受了产业。 19 我们不与他们在约旦河西边之地同受产业,因为我们的产业是坐落在约旦河东边。”
20 摩西对他们说:“如果你们这样行,在耶和华面前武装起来去作战, 21 你们所有武装起来的人,都要在耶和华面前过约旦河,直到他把他的仇敌从自己面前赶出去, 22 直到那地在耶和华面前被征服了,然后才回家,这样你们对耶和华和对以色列就算无罪,这地也可以在耶和华面前归你们作产业。 23 如果你们不这样行,就得罪了耶和华;你们要知道你们的罪必追上你们。 24 现在你们只管照你们口中所出的话去行,为你们的孩子建城,为你们的羊群筑圈。” 25 迦得子孙和流本子孙告诉摩西:“你仆人必照着我主吩咐的去行。 26 我们的孩子、妻子、羊群和所有的牲畜,都要留在基列的各城; 27 但你的仆人,所有武装起来预备打仗的,都要照着我主所说的,在耶和华面前过去作战。”
28 于是,摩西为了他们,嘱咐以利亚撒祭司和嫩的儿子约书亚,以及以色列众支派的族长, 29 对他们说:“迦得的子孙和流本的子孙,所有武装起来,在耶和华面前预备去作战的人,如果与你们一同过约旦河,那地在你们面前被征服了,你们就要把基列地给他们作产业。 30 他们若是不武装起来,与你们一同过去,他们就要在迦南地在你们中间同得产业。” 31 迦得的子孙和流本的子孙回答,说:“耶和华怎样吩咐仆人,我们就怎样行。 32 我们要武装起来,在耶和华面前过河,到迦南地去;只是约旦河这边的地方,要归我们作产业。”
33 于是摩西把亚摩利王西宏的国,和巴珊王噩的国,连那地,和境内城市,以及那地周围的城市,都给了迦得的子孙、流本的子孙和约瑟的儿子玛拿西的半个支派。 34 迦得的子孙修筑了底本、亚他录、亚罗珥、 35 亚他录.朔反、雅谢、约比哈、 36 伯.宁拉、伯.哈兰这些坚固的城市和羊圈。 37 流本的子孙修筑了希实本、以利亚利、基列亭、 38 尼波、巴力.免(以上的名字是改了的)、西比玛;又为他们修筑的城市起了别的名字。 39 玛拿西的儿子玛吉的子孙到基列去,攻取了那地,把住在那里的亚摩利人赶走。 40 摩西把基列给了玛拿西的儿子玛吉,玛吉就住在那里。 41 玛拿西的儿子睚珥,去攻取了亚摩利人的村庄,就把这些村庄叫作哈倭特.睚珥。 42 挪巴去攻取了基纳和基纳的小村镇,就用自己的名字叫基纳为挪巴。
Numbers 32
King James Version
32 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;
2 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
4 Even the country which the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?
8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to see the land.
9 For when they went up unto 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.
10 And the Lord'S anger was kindled the same time, and he sware, saying,
11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:
12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the Lord.
13 And the Lord'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.
14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.
15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,
21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
22 And the land be subdued before the Lord: then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and before Israel; and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
23 But if ye will not do so, behold, ye have sinned against the Lord: and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead:
27 But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.
28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel:
29 And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan, every man armed to battle, before the Lord, and the land shall be subdued before you; then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:
30 But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.
32 We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be our's.
33 And Moses gave unto them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and unto half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, with the cities thereof in the coasts, even the cities of the country round about.
34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,
35 And Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,
36 And Bethnimrah, and Bethharan, fenced cities: and folds for sheep.
37 And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kirjathaim,
38 And Nebo, and Baalmeon, (their names being changed,) and Shibmah: and gave other names unto the cities which they builded.
39 And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.
40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt therein.
41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof, and called them Havothjair.
42 And Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages thereof, and called it Nobah, after his own name.
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