Numbers 32:2-14

          2So the Gadites and Reubenites came to Moses, Eleazar the priest, and the leaders of the congregation, and said,
          3“Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,
          4which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock — and your servants have livestock.”

⁵“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

          6But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
          7Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?
          8This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

          9For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
          10So the anger of the LORD was kindled that day, and He swore an oath, saying,
          11‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob —
          12not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun — because they did follow the LORD wholeheartedly.’
          13The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until the whole generation who had done evil in His sight was gone.

¹⁴Now behold, you, a brood of sinners, have risen up in place of your fathers to further stoke the burning anger of the LORD against Israel.

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