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Numbers 32:7
Numbers 32:7 is verse 7 of Numbers chapter 32, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?
King James Version
And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
World English Bible
Why do you discourage the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them?
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Numbers 32:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible
5 “If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
6 But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?
7 Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land that the LORD has given them?
8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
9 For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Numbers 32:9For when your fathers went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land that the LORD had given them.
Numbers 21:4Then they set out from Mount Hor along the route to the Red Sea, in order to bypass the land of Edom. But the people grew impatient on the journey
Deuteronomy 1:28Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Acts 21:13Then Paul answered, “Why are you weeping and breaking my heart? I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die in Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”