Numbers 32:26

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

Numbers 32:26 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:26

Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle,
&c.] Their families, and their substance:

shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
such as are before mentioned, ( Numbers 32:3 ) and which they proposed to repair and fortify, to preserve their families and possessions from the Amorites about them.

Numbers 32:26 In-Context

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,

27 but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over {before} Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says."

28 So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the {families} of the tribes of the {Israelites}.

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew "animal"
• [b]. Literally "will be there"