Holman Christian Standard Bible

Numbers 32:5-10 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

5. They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”

6. But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?

7. Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the Lord has given them?

8. That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

9. After they went up as far as Eshcol Valley and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.

10. So the Lord’s anger burned that day, and He swore an oath: