Numbers 32:24

24 Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do."

Numbers 32:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:24

Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for
your sheep
For their safety and security, as they proposed to do:

and do that which proceedeth out of your mouth;
all that they had promised.

Numbers 32:24 In-Context

22 and the land is subdued {before} Yahweh, then afterward you will return and be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be your property {before} Yahweh.

23 But if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you.

24 Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do."

25 So the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben said to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.

26 Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals {will remain} in the cities of Gilead,