Bamidbar 32:15-17

Orthodox Jewish Bible

¹⁵ For if ye turn away from after Him, He will yet again leave them in the midbar; and ye shall destroy kol HaAm Hazeh.

¹⁶ And they came near unto him, and said, We will build gidrot tzon here for our mikneh, and towns for our little ones;

¹⁷ But we ourselves will go ready armed ahead of the Bnei Yisroel, until we have brought them unto their makom; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of HaAretz.