Numbers 32:14-16

Good News Translation

¹⁴ And now you have taken your ancestors' place, a new generation of sinful people ready to bring down the fierce anger of the Lord on Israel again. ¹⁵ If you people of Reuben and Gad refuse to follow him now, he will once again abandon all these people in the wilderness, and you will be responsible for their destruction.”

¹⁶ They approached Moses and said, “First, allow us to build stone enclosures here for our sheep and fortified towns for our dependents.