Numbers 32:15-17
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
15 If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will bring about the ruin of this entire people.”
Counter Proposal. 16 But they approached him and said: “We will only build sheepfolds here for our flocks and towns for our families; 17 but we ourselves will march as troops in the vanguard before the Israelites,(A) until we have led them to their destination. Meanwhile our families will remain in the fortified towns because of the land’s inhabitants.
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