Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752

Numbers 32:24-35 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

24. Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

25. And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.

26. We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad:

27. And we thy servants all well appointed will march on to the war, as thou, my lord, speakest.

28. Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and said to them:

29. If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.

30. But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.

31. And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:

32. We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan.

33. Moses therefore gave to the children of Cad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about.

34. And the sons of Cad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

35. And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,