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chapter 32
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the sons of Ruben and Gad had many flocks of cattle, and their substance in
beasts was infinite. And when they saw the lands of Jazer and Galaad fit for
feeding cattle,
2 They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the
princes of the multitude, and said:
3 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nemra, Hesebon,
and Eleale, and Saban, and Nebo, and Beon,
4 The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight
of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts:
and we thy servants have very much cattle:
5 And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy
sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass
over the Jordan.
6 And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go
to fight, and will you sit here?
7 Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of
Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given
them?
8 Was it not thus your fathers did, when I sent from
Cadesbarne to view the land?
9 And when they were come as far as the valley of the
cluster, having viewed all the country, they overturned the hearts of the
children of Israel, that they should not enter into the coasts, which the Lord
gave them.
10 And he swore in his anger, saying:.
11 If these men, that came up out of Egypt, from twenty
years old and upward, shall see the land, which I promised with an oath to
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: because they would not follow me,
12 Except Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezite, and
Josue the son of Nun: these have fulfilled my will.
13 And the Lord being angry against Israel, led them
about through the desert forty years, until the whole generation, that had done
evil in his sight, was consumed.
14 And 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.
15 For if you will not follow him, he will leave the
people in the wilderness, end you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.
16 But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds,
and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children :
17 And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle
before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our
little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the
ambushes of the inhabitants.
18 We will not return into our houses until the
children of Israel possess their inheritance:
19 Neither will we seek any thing beyond the Jordan,
because we have already our possession on the east side thereof,
20 And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise,
go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
21 And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan,
until the Lord overthrow his enemies :
22 And all the land be brought under him, then shall
you be blameless before the Lord and before Israel, and you shall obtain the
countries that you desire, before the Lord.
23 But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but
you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you.
24 Build therefore cities for your children, and folds
and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.
25 And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We
are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.
26 We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep
and cattle, in the cities of Galaad:
27 And we thy servants all well appointed will march on
to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest.
28 Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and
Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of
Israel, and said to them:
29 If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben
pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land
be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.
30 But if they will not pass armed with you into the land
of Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.
31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben
answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:
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.
33 Moses therefore gave to the children of Cad 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.
34 And the sons of Cad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and
Aroer,
35 And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,
36 And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and
folds for their cattle.
37 But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale,
and Cariathaim,
38 And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed)
and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built.
39 Moreover the children of Machir, the son of
Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the
inhabitants thereof.
40 And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son
of Manasses, and he dwelt in it.
41 And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the
villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages
of Jair.
42 Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages
thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.
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