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Numbers 32:16

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And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

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  1. Numbers 32:14

    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.

  2. Numbers 32:15

    For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

  3. Numbers 32:17

    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.

  4. Numbers 32:18

    We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.