Numbers 32:24

24 Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised.”

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 then you may return when the LORD has conquered the land. You will have fulfilled your duty to the LORD and to the rest of the people of Israel. And the land on the east side of the Jordan will be your property from the LORD .

23 But if you fail to keep your word, then you will have sinned against the LORD, and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.

24 Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised.”

25 Then the men of Gad and Reuben replied, “We, your servants, will follow your instructions exactly.

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