Numbers 32:26

26 Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will stay behind here in the towns 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 So, go ahead. Build towns for your families and corrals for you livestock. Do what you said you'd do."

25 The families of Gad and Reuben told Moses: "We will do as our master commands.

26 Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will stay behind here in the towns of Gilead.

27 But we, every one of us fully armed, will cross the river to fight for God, just as our master has said."

28 So Moses issued orders for them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral tribes of the People of Israel.