19However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,


In Context

16 But to the Reubenites and the Gadites I gave the territory extending from Gilead down to the Arnon Gorge (the middle of the gorge being the border) and out to the Jabbok River, which is the border of the Ammonites.

17 Its western border was the Jordan in the Arabah, from Kinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ), below the slopes of Pisgah.

18 I commanded you at that time: "The Lord your God has given you this land to take possession of it. But all your able- bodied men, armed for battle, must cross over ahead of your brother Israelites.

19 However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,

20 until the Lord gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they too have taken over the land that the Lord your God is giving them, across the Jordan. After that, each of you may go back to the possession I have given you."

21 At that time I commanded Joshua: "You have seen with your own eyes all that the Lord your God has done to these two kings. The Lord will do the same to all the kingdoms over there where you are going.

Deuteronomy 3:19 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, ([for] I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:19Leaving your wives and children and cattle. For I know you have much cattle, and they must remain in the cities, which I have delivered to you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you,

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:19Only your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, I know that ye have much cattle, shall abide in your cities which I have given you,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:19Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle — I have known that ye have much cattle — do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:19But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that you have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;