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Numbers 32:2

So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and Eleazar the religious leader and the leaders of the people,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cattle;   Gad;   Gilead;   Government;   Haste;   Misjudgment;   Motive;   Petition;   Uncharitableness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Desert, Journey of Israel through the;   Gad, the Tribe of;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Gad;   Reuben;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ammon;   Eleazar;   Gad;   Heshbon;   Manasseh, tribe of;   Reuben;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Land (of Israel);   Easton Bible Dictionary - City;   Gad;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bashan;   Gad (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Nebo;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Gad;   Israel;   Manasseh;   Reuben;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Ja'besh;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - On to Canaan;   Moses, the Man of God;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Reuben;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Sidra;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
the children of Gad and the children of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, and to El`azar the Kohen, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
King James Version
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
Lexham English Bible
The descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben came, and they said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the community, saying,
English Standard Version
So the people of Gad and the people of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the congregation,
New Century Version
they came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the people.
New English Translation
the Gadites and the Reubenites came and addressed Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the community. They said,
Amplified Bible
So the sons of Gad and of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
New American Standard Bible
the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the children of Gad, and the childre of Reuben came, and spake vnto Moses and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the princes of the Congregation, saying,
Legacy Standard Bible
so the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
Contemporary English Version
So they went to Moses, Eleazar, and the other leaders of Israel and said,
Complete Jewish Bible
the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, El‘azar the cohen and the community leaders. They said,
Darby Translation
And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the assembly, saying,
Easy-to-Read Version
So the people from the tribes of Reuben and Gad came to Moses. They spoke to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the people.
George Lamsa Translation
The children of Reuben and the children of Gad came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the princes of the congregation,
Good News Translation
they went to Moses, Eleazar, and the other leaders of the community and said,
Christian Standard Bible®
So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, the priest Eleazar, and the leaders of the community and said:
Literal Translation
And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came in and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the rulers of the congregation, saying,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and came & spake vnto Moses and to Eleasar the prest, and to the captaynes of the congregacion:
American Standard Version
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
Bible in Basic English
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, came & spake vnto Moyses and Eleazar the priest, and vnto the lordes of the congregation, saying:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying:
King James Version (1611)
The children of Gad, and the children of Reuben, came and spake vnto Moses, and to Eleazar the Priest, and vnto the Princes of the Congregation, saying,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
and the children of Ruben and the children of Gad came, and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
English Revised Version
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation, saying,
Berean Standard Bible
So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
thei camen to Moyses and Eleazar, preest, and to the princes of the multitude, and seiden,
Young's Literal Translation
and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Reuben, come in and speak unto Moses, and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the company, saying:
Update Bible Version
the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
Webster's Bible Translation
The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
World English Bible
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying,
New King James Version
the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
New Living Translation
they came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the other leaders of the community. They said,
New Revised Standard
the Gadites and the Reubenites came and spoke to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came in, - and spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of assembly, saying,
Douay-Rheims Bible
They came to Moses and Eleazar the priest, and the princes of the multitude, and said:
Revised Standard Version
So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Elea'zar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and spoke to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying,

Contextual Overview

1 Now the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad had very many cattle. And they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle. 2 So the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and Eleazar the religious leader and the leaders of the people, 3 "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon, 4 the land which the Lord won in battle in front of the people of Israel, is a land for cattle and your servants have cattle." 5 And they said, "If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as our own. Do not take us to the other side of the Jordan." 6 But Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, "Should your brothers go to war while you sit here? 7 Why do you take from the people of Israel the desire to cross over into the land the Lord has given them? 8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land. 9 They went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land. Then they took the desire away from the people of Israel so that they did not go into the land the Lord had given them. 10 So the Lord's anger burned on that day, and He swore, saying

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Joshua 13:7 - General Joshua 21:8 - as the Lord

Cross-References

Genesis 32:26
The man said, "Let me go. For the morning has come." But Jacob said, "I will not let you go unless you pray that good will come to me."
Genesis 32:27
The man asked him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
Joshua 5:14
"No," He said, "I have now come as Captain of the army of the Lord." Joshua fell on his face to the ground and worshiped, and said to Him, "What has my Lord to say to His servant?"
Joshua 21:38
From the family of Gad was given Ramoth in Gilead with its fields. A man who killed another person could run to Ramoth in Gilead to be safe. And they gave them Mahanaim with its fields,
2 Samuel 2:8
But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul's army, had taken Saul's son Ish-bosheth to Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 2:12
Now Abner the son of Ner went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon with the servants of Saul's son Ish-bosheth.
2 Samuel 17:24
Then David came to Mahanaim. Absalom and all the men of Israel with him crossed the Jordan.
1 Kings 2:8
See, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera the Benjamite, of Bahurim. It was he who spoke bad words against me on the day I went to Mahanaim. But when he came down to me at the Jordan, I promised him by the Lord, saying, ‘I will not put you to death with the sword.'
1 Kings 4:14
There was Ahinadab the son of Iddo in Mahanaim,
2 Kings 6:17
Then Elisha prayed and said, "O Lord, I pray, open his eyes, that he may see." And the Lord opened the servant's eyes, and he saw. He saw that the mountain was full of horses and war-wagons of fire all around Elisha.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spake unto Moses,.... The children of Gad are mentioned first, though Reuben was the firstborn, and had a standard under which Gad pitched: it may be, as Aben Ezra thinks, the Gadites were the first authors of this counsel, the contrivers of this scheme; who first moved it to the Reubenites, which they had an opportunity of doing, lying encamped by them; or however, they might be the most busy and active in this affair, or the best spokesmen; for it could be only some, in the name of the whole, that addressed Moses on this account, and spoke to him about it:

and to Eleazar the priest, and unto the princes of the congregation; who perhaps were the seventy elders, and with Moses the chief ruler, and Eleazar the high priest, made up the grand sanhedrim, or great council of the nation, and were undoubtedly the most proper persons to apply unto:

saying: as follows.


 
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