Numbers 32:14-16

Contemporary English Version

¹⁴ Now you people of Reuben and Gad are doing the same thing and making the Lord even angrier. ¹⁵ If you reject the Lord, he will once again abandon his people and leave them here in the desert. And you will be to blame!

¹⁶ The men from Reuben and Gad replied:

Let us build places to keep our sheep and goats, and towns for our wives and children,