Deuteronomy 3:19 meaning and explanation
But your wives, your children, and your livestock—I know that you have much livestock—may remain in the cities I have given you,
Deuteronomy 3:19, Berean Standard Bible
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Moses is speaking to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, who had asked for land east of the Jordan. In verses 18 to 20 he sets the terms: their fighting men must cross ahead of the other tribes, while their wives, children and livestock stay behind in the towns already given to them.
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