Numbers 32:15-20
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15 For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.
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16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:
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17 But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
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18 We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
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19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
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20 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,