Numbers 32:24

24 Build towns for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; but do what 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 and the land is subdued before the Lord—then after that you may return and be free of obligation to the Lord and to Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord.
23 But if you do not do this, you have sinned against the Lord; and be sure your sin will find you out.
24 Build towns for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; but do what you have promised."
25 Then the Gadites and the Reubenites said to Moses, "Your servants will do as my lord commands.
26 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock shall remain there in the towns of Gilead;
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