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The Tribes East of the Jordan

Numbers 32:24

In 11 translations

BSB
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
KJV
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
WEB
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
ASV
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
LSV
build for yourselves cities for your infants and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth you do.”
YLT
build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'
DBY
Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks, and do that which has gone out of your mouth.
DRC
Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.
GNV
Builde you then cities for your children and folds for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoke.
JPS
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'
LXXE
And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
בְּנֽוּ־לָכֶ֤ם עָרִים֙ לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א מִפִּיכֶ֖ם תַּעֲשֽׂוּ׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ οἰκοδομήσετε ὑμῖν ἑαυτοῖς πόλεις τῇ ἀποσκευῇ ὑμῶν, καὶ ἐπαύλεις τοῖς κτήνεσιν ὑμῶν· καὶ τὸ ἐκπορευόμενον ἐκ τοῦ στόματος ὑμῶν ποιήσετε.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Numbers 32:16Then the Gadites and Reubenites approached Moses and said, “We want to build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our little ones.
  • Numbers 30:2If a man makes a vow to the LORD or swears an oath to obligate himself by a pledge, he must not break his word; he must do everything he has promised.
  • Numbers 32:34–42And the Gadites built up Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer, Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah, Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and they built folds for their flocks. The Reubenites built up Heshbon, Elealeh,…

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