Numbers 32:17

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but we will take up arms as a vanguard before the Israelites, until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our little ones will stay in the fortified towns because of the inhabitants of the land.

Cross References

Numbers 32:16

Then they came up to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,