Numbers 32:6

6 quibus respondit Moses numquid fratres vestri ibunt ad pugnam et vos hic sedebitis

Numbers 32:6 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:6

And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of
Reuben
Being displeased with their motion, as his following discourse shows, it having at first sight an appearance of covetousness and cowardice:

shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
it is not reasonable that your brethren should be left by you and engage in a war with your common enemies, to dispossess them of their land before they can settle in it and you remain here easy and quiet in the possession of a fruitful country.

Numbers 32:6 In-Context

4 terram quam percussit Dominus in conspectu filiorum Israhel regionis uberrimae est ad pastum animalium et nos servi tui habemus iumenta plurima

5 precamurque si invenimus gratiam coram te ut des nobis famulis tuis eam in possessionem ne facias nos transire Iordanem

6 quibus respondit Moses numquid fratres vestri ibunt ad pugnam et vos hic sedebitis

7 cur subvertitis mentes filiorum Israhel ne transire audeant in locum quem eis daturus est Dominus

8 nonne ita egerunt patres vestri quando misi de Cadesbarne ad explorandam terram