Numbers 32:31

31 The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the LORD has said.

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Numbers 32:31 in Other Translations

KJV

31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As the LORD hath said unto thy servants, so will we do.

ESV

31 And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben answered, "What the LORD has said to your servants, we will do.

NLT

31 The tribes of Gad and Reuben said again, “We are your servants, and we will do as the LORD has commanded!

MSG

31 The families of Gad and Reuben responded: "We will do what God has said.

CSB

31 The Gadites and Reubenites replied, "What the Lord has spoken to your servants is what we will do.

Numbers 32:31 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:31

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered,
&c.], The word is in the singular number, and shows their unanimity, that they agreed to what Moses said, and replied all of them as one man, as Jarchi expresses it; and it may be there was one that was the mouth of them all, and answered for them:

saying, as the Lord hath said unto thy servants, so will we do;
here they make use of the word Jehovah, taking what Moses had said unto them as from the Lord, and therefore should strictly and punctually observe it, as if they heard the Lord himself speak it.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Numbers 32:31 In-Context

29 He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the LORD, then when the land is subdued before you, you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.

30 But if they do not cross over with you armed, they must accept their possession with you in Canaan.”

31 The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “Your servants will do what the LORD has said.

32 We will cross over before the LORD into Canaan armed, but the property we inherit will be on this side of the Jordan.”

33 Then Moses gave to the Gadites, the Reubenites and the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the whole land with its cities and the territory around them.