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Numbers 32:5

Jordan

3 “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

4 which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your servants have livestock.”

“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.”

6 But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

7 Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“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.”
KJV
Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.
WEB
They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”
ASV
And they said, If we have found favor in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.
DARBY
and they said, If we have found favour in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession: bring us not over the Jordan.
BLB
And they said, “If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession, do not make us pass over the Jordan.”
ÅB
Og de sa: Dersom vi har funnet nåde for dine øyne, så la dine tjenere få dette land til eiendom, la oss slippe å dra over Jordan!
OTB
De fortsatte, "Hvis vi har funnet nåde i dine øyne, la dette landet bli gitt til dine tjenere som vår eiendom; tving oss ikke til å krysse Jordan."
B1930
Og de sa: Dersom vi har funnet nåde for dine øine, så la dine tjenere få dette land til eiendom, la oss slippe å dra over Jordan!

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Cross references

  • Joshua 7:7

    “O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

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  • 1 Samuel 20:3

    But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”

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  • Deuteronomy 1:37

    The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

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  • Deuteronomy 3:25–26

    Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

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  • Jeremiah 31:2

    This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

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  • Ruth 2:10

    At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

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  • 2 Samuel 14:22

    Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

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  • Esther 5:2

    As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

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