Numbers 32:5 meaning and explanation
“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.”
Numbers 32:5, Berean Standard Bible
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The speakers are the Gadites and Reubenites, two tribes with large flocks who have surveyed the fertile land east of the Jordan that Israel had already conquered. They ask Moses, Eleazar the priest and the leaders to grant them this region as their possession so they need not cross the river.
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