16Then they came up to him and said, "We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.


In Context

13 The Lord 's anger burned against Israel and he made them wander in the desert forty years, until the whole generation of those who had done evil in his sight was gone.

14 "And here you are, a brood of sinners, standing in the place of your fathers and making the Lord even more angry with Israel.

15 If you turn away from following him, he will again leave all this people in the desert, and you will be the cause of their destruction."

16 Then they came up to him and said, "We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.

17 But we are ready to arm ourselves and go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our women and children will live in fortified cities, for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has received his inheritance.

Numbers 32:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:16And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

32:16But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children :

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

32:16And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:16And they drew near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

32:16And they came near unto him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:16And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheep-folds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

32:16They came near to him, and said, |We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

32:16And they come nigh unto him, and say, 'Folds for the flock we build for our cattle here, and cities for our infants;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

32:16And they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones: