Numbers 32:23

23 "But if you don't do what you say, you will be sinning against God; you can be sure that your sin will track you down.

Numbers 32:23 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:23

But if ye will not do so
As they promised they would, and Moses insisted on it that they should:

behold, ye have sinned against the Lord
making such a request, and not fulfilling the conditions on which it was granted:

and be sure your sin will find you out;
fly in their faces, accuse them in their consciences, charge and load them with guilt, and bring deserved punishment upon them: sin may be put, as it often is, for the punishment of sin, which sooner or later will find out and come upon the impenitent and unpardoned sinner.

Numbers 32:23 In-Context

21 and together go across the Jordan ready, before God, to fight until God has cleaned his enemies out of the land,

22 then when the land is secure you will have fulfilled your duty to God and Israel. Then this land will be yours to keep before God.

23 "But if you don't do what you say, you will be sinning against God; you can be sure that your sin will track you down.

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.