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Numbers 32:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Now the Reubenites and Gadites had a very large number of livestock. Noticing that the land of Jazer and of Gilead was a place suited to livestock,

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Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents,

Leah conceived and bore a son, and she named him Reuben; for she said, “It means, ‘The Lord saw my misery; surely now my husband will love me.’”

We have come,” they continued, “in order to sojourn in this land, for there is no pasture for your servants’ flocks, because the famine has been severe in the land of Canaan. So now please let your servants settle in the region of Goshen.”

Crossing the Jordan, they began near Aroer, south of the city in the wadi, and turned in the direction of Gad toward Jazer.

They continued on to Gilead and to the district below Mount Hermon. Then they proceeded to Dan; from there they turned toward Sidon,

They who have just been listed by name set out during the reign of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and attacked their tents and also the Meunites who were there. They put them under the ban that is still in force to this day and dwelt in their place because they found pasture there for their flocks.

A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with them, with livestock in great abundance, both flocks and herds.

For thus says the Lord concerning the house of the king of Judah: Though you be to me like Gilead, like the peak of Lebanon, I swear I shall turn you into a waste, with cities uninhabited.

More than for Jazer I weep for you, vine of Sibmah. Your tendrils trailed down to the sea, as far as Jazer they stretched. Upon your summer harvest and your vintage, the destroyer has fallen.

But I will bring Israel back to its pasture, to feed on Carmel and Bashan, And on Mount Ephraim and Gilead, until they have their fill.

Is there no balm in Gilead, no healer there? Why does new flesh not grow over the wound of the daughter of my people?

Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your heritage, That lives apart in a woodland, in the midst of an orchard. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old;

Moses sent spies to Jazer; and the Israelites captured it with its dependencies and dispossessed the Amorites who were there. Victory over Og.

the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses and Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community and said,

While our wives and children, our livestock and other animals remain there in the towns of Gilead,

“The region of Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Baal-meon—

Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

He saw that the best should be his, for there the commander’s portion was assigned; he came at the head of the people. He carried out the justice of the Lord and his ordinances for Israel.

Their territory included Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, toward Rabbah

The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead,

So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and returned to the land of Gilead, their own land, which they had received according to the Lord’s command through Moses. The Altar Beside the Jordan.

For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.

Why did you stay beside your hearths listening to the lowing of the herds? Among the clans of Reuben great were the searchings of heart!




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