Numbers 32:14-16

Common English Bible

¹⁴ Now you’ve taken the place of your ancestors, a group of sinful men, to intensify the Lord’s anger against Israel. ¹⁵ If you turn away from him, he will turn away again to abandon Israel in the desert. Then you will destroy this entire people.”

Conditions for possession of the land

¹⁶ So they approached him and said, “We will build walled enclosures here for our livestock and towns for our children.