13. The anger of Adonai burned against Israel and He caused them to wander in the wilderness 40 years until all the generation doing that evil in Adonai’s sight was gone.
14. “Now look, here you stand in the place of your fathers as a brood of sinful men to add more to Adonai’s great wrath against Israel!
15. If you turn away from Him, He will repeat again leaving this people in the wilderness, you being the cause of this people’s destruction.”
16. Then they came up to him and said, “We will build sheepfolds for our livestock and cities for our children.
17. But we are prepared to arm ourselves and go ahead of Bnei-Yisrael until we have brought them to their place. Our children will live in the cities fortified against the inhabitants of the land.
18. We will not return to our homes until each one of Bnei-Yisrael has received his inheritance.
19. Yet we will not inherit with them on the side beyond the Jordan, since our inheritance has come on the east side of the Jordan.”
20. Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves for battle for Adonai,