Numbers 32:15-17

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁵ For if you will not follow him, he will leave the people in the wilderness, and you shall be the cause of the destruction of all.

¹⁶ But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children:

¹⁷ And we ourselves will go armed and ready for battle before the children of Israel, until we bring them in unto their places. Our little ones, and all we have, shall be in walled cities, for fear of the ambushes of the inhabitants.