Numbers 32:5 ““If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be g…”

Numbers 32:5

“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.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not over Jordan.

World English Bible

They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Don’t bring us over the Jordan.”

American Standard Version

And they said, If we have found favor in thy sight, let this land be given unto thy servants for a possession; bring us not over the Jordan.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wherefore, said they, if we haue foud grace in thy sight, let this lande be giuen vnto thy seruants for a possession, and bring vs not ouer Iorde.

Darby Translation

and they said, If we have found favour in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession: bring us not over the Jordan.

Young's Literal Translation

And they say, 'If we have found grace in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession; cause us not to pass over the Jordan.'

Bible in Basic English

And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

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Cross references

“if we have”

Genesis 19:19 Ruth 2:10 1 Samuel 20:3 2 Samuel 14:22 Esther 5:2 Jeremiah 31:2

Genesis 19:19 · BSB

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Ruth 2:10 · BSB

At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”

1 Samuel 20:3 · BSB

But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, th…

2 Samuel 14:22 · BSB

Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor in your eyes, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”

Esther 5:2 · BSB

As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.

Jeremiah 31:2 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”

“bring us”

Deuteronomy 1:37 Joshua 7:7 Deuteronomy 3:25 Deuteronomy 3:26

Deuteronomy 1:37 · BSB

The LORD was also angry with me on your account, and He said, “Not even you shall enter the land.

Joshua 7:7 · BSB

“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Deuteronomy 3:25 · BSB

Please let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan—that pleasant hill country as well as Lebanon!”

Deuteronomy 3:26 · BSB

But the LORD was angry with me on account of you, and He would not listen to me. “That is enough,” the LORD said to me. “Do not speak to Me again about this matter.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4which the LORD conquered before the congregation of Israel, are suitable for livestock—and your servants have livestock.”

6But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

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