Numbers - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 164

NUMBERS. the children of Israel before ]EHOvA1—1. if then your servants have found favour in your eyes, give this district to your servants to possess and we will not pass over the ]ordan,' Qngzxr sub Qiluh. tothe sous of Reuben, and the sous of Gad was very numerous, and they saw that the districtof Yazer, and the district of Gilad were places for cattle. S0 the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came to Moses and Aiiazer the priest, and the princes of the Parliament, to say; ‘ Ataroth, and Diban, and Nimrah,

and Kheshbon, and Alalah, and Shibma, and Nebo, and Ban,-··the country that the EVER-L1v1NG has conquered before the Commonwealth of lsmel,——-is a place for cattle, and

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31*48 fifty, both of the men, and of the beasts, and gave them to the Levites of the guard who guarded the sanctuary of- the EVER-Lxvmo, as the LORD commanded to Moses. Wh: ,3rmg Q9$rzrz ¤&'zr a 3'rzz ®ifi. 49 53 Then the ofiicers of the regiments

of the army-the colonels of regi- ments, and the captains of companies, presented themselves to Moses, and said to Moses; ‘Your servants were promoted to

be the chief commanders in the cam- paign which is in our hand, and not a man of us is missing. therefore we present this gift to the EVER-L1v1NG, each from what he has found of articles of gold, anklets, and brace- lets, seals, earrings, and beads, to expiate for our persons before the Even-Liviuo, for our lives! Moses and Aliazer the priest, there-

fore, accepted from them all these articles made of gold. And the weight of the gold presented to the EvEx— LIVING by the colonels of the regi- ments, and the captains of companies, was sixteen thousand, seven hundred and fifty shekels; for the commanders in the army had each plundered for

54 themselves; so Moses and Aliazer the priest accepted the gold from the commanders of regiments and com- panies, and brought it into the Hall of Assembly, as a remembrance from

Gil}: Rzuhznitzs mth ®ahiiz¤ ask fur 32 But the number of cattle belonging But Moses said to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben; ‘ Your brothers are going over the

jordan, and would you stay here? Whyshould you discourage the hearts of the children of Israel from passing to the country which the EVE R—L1v1N<; has given to them ? Your fathers did the same, when I sent them from Kadesh~ Barnea to survey the country, when they proceeded to the brook of Ashkol, and examined the country, and discouraged the hearts of the children of Israel, so that they would not go to the land which the EVER- LIVING had given them, and the anger of JEHOVAH burnt at that time, and He declared, saying ;·—‘ The men who come up out of the Mitzeraim, from twenty years old and upwards, shall not see the country which I promised 'to Abraham, to Isaac, and to ]acob,——-for they are not sincerely following Me ;—except Kaleb the son of jephunalzgthe Kenezite, and joshua the son of Nun, who sincerely fol- lowed the EVER-1.1v1NG.’ The anger of ]EHovAH consequently burnt against Israel, and they wandered forty years in the Wilderness, until all that generation who had done wrong in the sight of the EVER- LIVING had died. And now you arise in the place of your fathers to con- tinue the burning anger of the LORD against Israel, for you are turning back from Him, and will cause Him to retain them in the Wilderness and consume all this people! I0 IK gut they pressed upon him and 82:.1 ;-—— ‘We will build folds to guard our

sheep, and cities for our children, but we ourselves are ready for action, and will advance ardently before the children of Israel to their districts wherever they may go. But our children can rest in the fortified towns, guarded from the inhabitants of the country. We will not return to our homes until the children of Israel I2 16 18 have each been put into possession of his estate. And we will not inherit rg over the jordan, nor westward, but our possessions shall be to the east Then Moses replied to them; ‘ If you will do this,———if you will be

ready for action before the EVER~· LIVING in the war, and pass fully armed over the jordan before the EvnR—LIvvNG until His enemies are 20 2`I