Numbers 32:8

Translations

Modern

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

Traditional

Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh–barnea to see the land.

Literal

Thus did your fathers when I sent them away from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.

Latin

Nonne ita egerunt patres vestri, quando misi de Cadesbarne ad explorandam terram?

Original

Hebrew

English

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.

Notes

Numbers 32:6–15

Moses assumed that Reuben and Gad wanted to stay east of the Jordan River to avoid the dangers that awaited the other tribes in Canaan (compare chapters 13–14).

Theme notes and profiles

Moses

Related verses

Numbers 14:2
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
Numbers 13:2–26
“Send out for yourself men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites. From each of their fathers’ tribes send one man who is a leader among them.”
Deuteronomy 1:19–25
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,
Joshua 14:6–7
Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

Parallels

Deuteronomy 3:12–22 Joshua 13:8–14

Places

Kadesh: An important oasis in the Wilderness of Zin

Glossary

Allotment of the Land Ammon, Ammonites Arabah Ataroth Conquest and Allotment of the Land Deuteronomy, Book of Dibon Elealeh Gilead (Place) Jazer Joshua, Book of Manasseh, Tribe of Moab, Moabites Moses Numbers, Book of Reuben (Place) Wilderness of Zin

Topics

Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: Reubenites Obtained the Land Taken from the Amorites Disobedience to God: Denunciations Against Gilead: A Region East of the Jordan River Allotted to the Tribes of Reuben and Gad and the Half Tribe of Manasseh Haste in Judgment, by Moses and the Israelites Israel: Send Twelve Spies to View the Land Journey of Israel Through The Desert: To Kadeshbarnea in Wilderness of Rithmah or Paran Misjudgment of the Reubenites and Gadites Motive: Misunderstood: The Tribes of Reuben and Gad, in Asking for Their Inheritance East of the Jordan River the Tribe of Gad: Sought and Obtained Its Inheritance East of Jordan the Tribe of Reuben: Obtained Inheritance East of Jordan on Condition of Helping The Tribes of Israel: Reuben, Gad and Half Manasseh were Required to Assist in Subduing Canaan Uncharitableness: The Tribes West of the Jordan River Toward the Two and a Half Tribes

Numbers 32:8

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