Numeri 32:2

2 und kamen und sprachen zu Mose und zu dem Priester Eleasar und zu den Fürsten der Gemeinde: {~}

Numeri 32:2 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:2

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake
unto Moses
The children of Gad are mentioned first, though Reuben was the firstborn, and had a standard under which Gad pitched: it may be, as Aben Ezra thinks, the Gadites were the first authors of this counsel, the contrivers of this scheme; who first moved it to the Reubenites, which they had an opportunity of doing, lying encamped by them; or however, they might be the most busy and active in this affair, or the best spokesmen; for it could be only some, in the name of the whole, that addressed Moses on this account, and spoke to him about it:

and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation;
who perhaps were the seventy elders, and with Moses the chief ruler, and Eleazar the high priest, made up the grand sanhedrim, or great council of the nation, and were undoubtedly the most proper persons to apply unto:

saying:
as follows.

Numeri 32:2 In-Context

1 Die Kinder Ruben und die Kinder Gad hatten sehr viel Vieh und sahen das Land Jaser und Gilead an als gute Stätte für ihr Vieh

2 und kamen und sprachen zu Mose und zu dem Priester Eleasar und zu den Fürsten der Gemeinde: {~}

3 Das Land Ataroth, Dibon, Jaser, Nimra, Hesbon, Eleale, Sebam, Nebo und Beon,

4 das der HERR geschlagen hat vor der Gemeinde Israel, ist gut zur Weide; und wir, deine Knechte, haben Vieh.

5 Und sprachen weiter: Haben wir Gnade vor dir gefunden, so gib dies Land deinen Knechten zu eigen, so wollen wir nicht über den Jordan ziehen.