THEOSISDeuteronomy 3:18Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
And I commanded you at that time, saying: The Lord your God giveth you this land for an inheritance, go ye well appointed before your brethren the children of Israel, all the strong men of you.
וָאֲצַ֣ו אֶתְכֶ֔ם בָּעֵ֥ת הַהִ֖וא לֵאמֹ֑ר יְהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֗ם נָתַ֨ן לָכֶ֜ם אֶת־הָאָ֤רֶץ הַזֹּאת֙ לְרִשְׁתָּ֔הּ חֲלוּצִ֣ים תּֽ͏ַעַבְר֗וּ לִפְנֵ֛י אֲחֵיכֶ֥ם בְּנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל כָּל־בְּנֵי־חָֽיִל׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Num 32:20And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:
- Num 32:24Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.
- Josh 4:12The children of Ruben also, and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moses had commanded them.
- Josh 4:13And forty thousand fighting men by their troops and bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of Jericho.
- Josh 1:12And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses:
- Josh 1:15Until the Lord give rest to your brethren, as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.
- Josh 22:1At the same time Joshua called the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses,
- Josh 22:9So the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses returned, and parted from the children of Israel in Silo, which is in Chanaan, to go into Galaad the land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.