Numbers 32:18
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
Numbers 32:18 in other translations
| BSB | We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance. |
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| WEB | We will not return to our houses until the children of Israel have all received their inheritance. |
| ASV | We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. |
| YLT | we do not turn back unto our houses till the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance, |
| DARBY | We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited each one his inheritance. |
| BBE | We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage. |
| Webster | We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance. |
What does Numbers 32:18 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Numbers 32:6-19
6-19. Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here--Their language was ambiguous; and Moses, suspicious that this proposal was an act of unbelief, a scheme of self-policy and indolence to escape the perils of warfare and live in ease and safety, addressed to them a reproachful and passionate remonstrance. Whether they had really meditated…
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Numbers 32:16-27
Here is the good effect of plain dealing. Moses, by showing their sin, and the danger of it, brought them to their duty, without murmuring or disputing. All men ought to consider the interests of others as well as their own; the law of love requires us to labour, venture, or suffer for each other as there may be occasion. They propose that their men of war should go ready armed before the children of Israel into the…
Numbers 32:18 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Numbers 32:18
- Joshua 22:1-5
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God. And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan. …
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Context
- Numbers 32:17
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
- Numbers 32:18
We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.
- Numbers 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.
Numbers 32:18 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No volveremos á nuestras casas hasta que los hijos de Israel posean cada uno su heredad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Nous ne reviendrons pas dans nos maisons, jusqu’à ce que les fils d’Israël aient pris possession chacun de son héritage; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wir wollen nicht zu unseren Häusern zurückkehren, bis die Kinder Israel ein jeder sein Erbteil empfangen haben. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non revertemur in domos nostras, usque dum possideant filii Israël hæreditatem suam: |