Numbers 32:24
Good News Translation
So build your towns and the enclosures for your sheep, but do what you have promised!"

New Revised Standard Version
Build towns for your little ones, and folds for your flocks; but do what you have promised.”

Contemporary English Version
Go ahead and build towns for your wives and children, and places for your sheep and goats. Just be sure to do what you have promised.

New American Bible
Build the towns, then, for your families, and the folds for your flocks, but fulfill what you have promised.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

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Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

Numbers 32:16,34 But they coming near, said: We will make sheepfolds, and stalls for our cattle, and strong cities for our children: . . .

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
23But if you do not what you say, no man can doubt but you sin against God: and know ye, that your sin shall overtake you. 24Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.25And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.…
Cross References
Genesis 49:14
Issachar shall be a strong ass, lying down between the borders.

Numbers 30:2
If any man make a vow to the Lord, or bind himself by an oath: he shall not make his word void but shall fulfil all that he promised.

Numbers 32:25
And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.

Numbers 32:23
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