Numbers 32:15-17

Evangelical Heritage Version

¹⁵ If you turn away from following him, he will once again leave these people in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all these people.”

¹⁶ They approached him and said, “We will build sheep pens here for our livestock and cities for our children, ¹⁷ but we will be quick to arm ourselves to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their own places. Our children will live in our fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land,