04:031:054 And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the
gold of the captains
of
thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the
tabernacle
of the congregation, for a memorial for the
children
of Israel before the lord.
04:032:001 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;
04:032:002 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,
04:032:003 Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah,
and Heshbon, and
Elealeh,
and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
04:032:004 Even the country which the lord smote
before the congregation
of
Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have
cattle:
04:032:005 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.
04:032:006 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?
04:032:007 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of
the children of
Israel
from going over into the land which the lord hath
given
them?
04:032:008 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them
from Kadeshbarnea to
see
the land.
04:032:009 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.
04:032:010 And the LORD’s anger was kindled
the same time, and he sware,
saying,
04:032:011 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:
04:032:012 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite,
and Joshua the
son
of Nun: for they have wholly followed the lord.
04:032:013 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.
04:032:014 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.
04:032:015 For if ye turn away from after him, he
will yet again leave
them
in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.


