Numbers 32:24

Complete Jewish Bible

Build cities for your little ones and enclosures for your sheep; then do what you said you would do."

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

King James Version
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Lexham English Bible
Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do."

English Standard Version
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

New Century Version
Build cities for your children and pens for your animals, but then you must do what you promised."

New English Translation
So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said you would do."

Amplified Bible
"Build yourselves cities for your children, and folds for your sheep, and do that of which you have spoken."

New American Standard Bible
"Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Builde you then cities for your children & folds for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoke.

Legacy Standard Bible
Build yourselves cities for your little ones and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

Contemporary English Version
Go ahead and build towns for your wives and children, and places for your sheep and goats. Just be sure to do what you have promised.

Darby Translation
Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks, and do that which has gone out of your mouth.

Easy-to-Read Version
Build cities for your children and barns for your animals. But then, you must do what you promised."

George Lamsa Translation
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep; and do that which you have promised.

Good News Translation
So build your towns and the enclosures for your sheep, but do what you have promised!"

Christian Standard Bible®
Build cities for your dependents and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Literal Translation
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep and do that which has come out of your mouth.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Buylde cities now therfore for youre children, and shepefoldes and stalles for youre shepe and catell, and do as ye haue spoken.

American Standard Version
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Bible in Basic English
So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe therfore, builde cities for your children, and foldes for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoken.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.'

King James Version (1611)
Build ye cities for your litle ones, and folds for your sheepe, and doe that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And ye shall build for yourselves cities for your store, and folds for your cattle; and ye shall do that which proceeds out of your mouth.

English Revised Version
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

Berean Standard Bible
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised."

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor bilde ye citees to youre litle children, and foldis and stablis to scheep, and to beestis; and fille ye that, that ye bihiyten.

Young's Literal Translation
build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'

Update Bible Version
Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

Webster's Bible Translation
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

World English Bible
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

New King James Version
Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what has proceeded out of your mouth."

New Living Translation
Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised."

New Life Bible
Build cities for your little ones and places for your sheep. Then do what you have promised."

New Revised Standard
Build towns for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; but do what you have promised."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks, - and then that which hath gone forth from your mouth, ye shall do.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

Revised Standard Version
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do what you have promised."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."

Contextual Overview

¹⁶ But they came up to him and said, "Here we will build enclosures for our livestock and cities for our little ones, ¹⁷ but we ourselves will be armed and ready for action to march at the head of the people of Isra'el, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones will stay in the fortified cities here because of the people now living in the land. ¹⁸ However, we will not return to our own homes until every man in Isra'el has taken possession of his land for inheritance. ¹⁹ We will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Yarden, westward; because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Yarden, eastward." ²⁰ (RY: iv, LY: vii) Moshe said to them, "If you will do this — if you will arm yourselves to go before Adonai to the war, ²¹ and if every one of your soldiers will cross the Yarden before Adonai , until he has driven out his enemies ahead of him, ²² and if the land has been conquered before Adonai , and only after that do you return — then you will be clear before Adonai and before Isra'el, and this land here will be yours to possess before Adonai . ²³ But if you will not do this, then you have sinned against Adonai , and you must understand that your sin will find you out. ²⁴ Build cities for your little ones and enclosures for your sheep; then do what you said you would do." ²⁵ The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Re'uven said to Moshe, "Your servants will do as my lord orders.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Numbers 32:16, Numbers 32:34-42

Reciprocal: Genesis 50:8 - only their Numbers 32:36 - fenced cities Judges 5:16 - sheepfolds

Cross-References

Genesis 30:8
Rachel said, "I have wrestled mightily with my sister and won," and called him Naftali [my wrestling].

Genesis 32:3
When Ya‘akov saw them, he said, "This is God's camp," and called that place Machanayim [two camps]. Haftarah Vayetze: Hoshea (Hosea) 12:13(12)–14:10(9) (A); 11:7–12:12(11) (S) B'rit Hadashah suggested reading for Parashah Vayetze: Yochanan (John) 1:43–51 Ya‘akov sent messengers ahead of him to ‘Esav his brother toward the land of Se‘ir, the country of Edom, with these instructions: "Here is what you are to say to my lord ‘Esav: ‘Your servant Ya‘akov says, "I have been living with Lavan and have stayed until now. I have cattle, donkeys and flocks, and male and female servants. I am sending to tell this news to my lord, in order to win your favor." '" The messengers returned to Ya‘akov saying, "We went to your brother ‘Esav, and he is coming to meet you; with him are four hundred men." Ya‘akov became greatly afraid and distressed. He divided the people, flocks, cattle and camels with him into two camps, saying, "If ‘Esav comes to the one camp and attacks it, at least the camp that is left will escape." Then Ya‘akov said, "God of my father Avraham and God of my father Yitz'chak, Adonai , who told me, ‘Return to your country and your kinsmen, and I will do you good': I'm not worthy of all the love and faithfulness you have shown your servant, since I crossed the Yarden with only my staff. But now I have become two camps. Please! Rescue me from my brother ‘Esav! I'm afraid of him, afraid he'll come and attack me, without regard for mothers or children. You said, ‘I will certainly do you good and make your descendants as numerous as the grains of sand by the sea, which are so many they can't be counted.'" (ii) He stayed there that night; then he chose from among his possessions the following as a present for ‘Esav his brother: two hundred female goats and twenty males, two hundred female sheep and twenty males, thirty milk-camels and their colts, forty cows and ten bulls, twenty female donkeys and ten colts. He turned them over to his servants, every drove by itself, and said to his servants, "Cross over in front of me, and keep a space between each drove and the next one." He instructed the servant in front, "When ‘Esav my brother meets you and asks you, ‘Whose servant are you? Where are you going? And whose animals are these?' then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Ya‘akov, and they are a present he has sent to my lord ‘Esav; and Ya‘akov himself is just behind us.'" He also instructed the second servant, and the third, and all that followed the droves, "When you encounter ‘Esav, you are to speak to him in the same way, and you are to add, ‘And there, just behind us, is your servant Ya‘akov.'" For he said, "I will appease him first with the present that goes ahead of me; then, after that, I will see him myself — and maybe he will be friendly toward me." So the present crossed over ahead of him, and he himself stayed that night in the camp. He got up that night, took his two wives, his two slave-girls, and his eleven children, and forded the Yabok. He took them and sent them across the stream, then sent his possessions across; and Ya‘akov was left alone. Then some man wrestled with him until daybreak. When he saw that he did not defeat Ya‘akov, he struck Ya‘akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him. The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya‘akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me." The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya‘akov." Then the man said, "From now on, you will no longer be called Ya‘akov, but Isra'el; because you have shown your strength to both God and men and have prevailed." Ya‘akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there. (iii) Ya‘akov called the place P'ni-El [face of God], "Because I have seen God face to face, yet my life is spared." As the sun rose upon him he went on past P'ni-El, limping at the hip. This is why, to this day, the people of Isra'el do not eat the thigh muscle that passes along the hip socket — because the man struck Ya‘akov's hip at its socket.

Genesis 32:5
with these instructions: "Here is what you are to say to my lord ‘Esav: ‘Your servant Ya‘akov says, "I have been living with Lavan and have stayed until now.

Genesis 32:26
When he saw that he did not defeat Ya‘akov, he struck Ya‘akov's hip socket, so that his hip was dislocated while wrestling with him.

Genesis 32:27
The man said, "Let me go, because it's daybreak." But Ya‘akov replied, "I won't let you go unless you bless me."

Genesis 32:28
The man asked, "What is your name?" and he answered, "Ya‘akov."

Genesis 32:30
Ya‘akov asked him, "Please tell me your name." But he answered, "Why are you asking about my name?" and blessed him there.

Genesis 48:16
the angel who has rescued me from all harm, bless these boys. May they remember who I am and what I stand for, and likewise my fathers Avraham and Yitz'chak, who they were and what they stood for. And may they grow into teeming multitudes on the earth."

Exodus 14:27
Moshe reached his hand out over the sea, and by dawn the sea had returned to its former depth. The Egyptians tried to flee, but Adonai swept them into the sea.

Song of Solomon 2:17
Before the daytime breeze rises and the shadows flee, return, my love, like a stag or gazelle on the hills of Beter.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep,.... For their safety and security, as they proposed to do:

and do that which proceedeth out of your mouth; all that they had promised.