The Meaning of Numbers 32:24 Explained

Numbers 32:24

KJV: Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

YLT: build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'

Darby: Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and folds for your flocks, and do that which has gone out of your mouth.

ASV: Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

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CONTEXT: What is the Context of Numbers 32:24?

MEANING: What does Numbers 32:24 Mean?

WORDS: What do the individual words in Numbers 32:24 mean?

RELATIONS: What do the major concepts mean in Numbers 32:24?

What is the context of Numbers 32:24?

The Offer is Accepted (Numbers 32:20-24)
The Tribes Settling East of the Jordan (Numbers 32:1-42)
Gad and Reuben Inherit Gilead (Numbers 32:1-42)
The Transjordan Tribes (Numbers 32:1-42)
Transjordan Settlements (Numbers 32:1-42)
Reuben and Gad Settle in Gilead (Numbers 32:1-42)
The Tribes East of the Jordan (Numbers 32:1-42)

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Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.

What does Numbers 32:24 Mean?

Context Summary

Numbers 32:20-42 - Warning Against Forsaking Their Brethren

These two and a half tribes never entered the national life, as did those on the other side of Jordan. They were far from the center of religious life, first at Shiloh and then at Jerusalem. On them first the tide of invasion broke, sweeping them and their cattle into captivity.

In Deborah's great song Reuben is rebuked for sitting "among the sheepfolds to hear the pipings for the flocks," instead of coming to the help of the Lord against the mighty. The Brahmins say that the holy man dies to every other sin earlier and easier than to the love of money. Their cattle kept these tribes on the wrong side of the river of separation! Let us beware of the cares of this world, if we are poor, and of the deceitfulness of riches, if we are rich. Better lose all than the soul. See Matthew 16:26. [source]

Chapter Summary: Numbers 32

¹ The Reubenites and Gadites ask for inheritance on the east side of Jordan
⁶ Moses reproves them
¹⁶ They offer him conditions with which he is content
³³ Moses assigns them the land
³⁹ They conquer it

What do the individual words in Numbers 32:24 mean?

Build to you cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep and what has proceeded out of your mouth do

בְּנֽוּ־ לָכֶ֤ם עָרִים֙ לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א מִפִּיכֶ֖ם תַּעֲשֽׂוּ

בְּנֽוּ־	Build
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperative, masculine plural Root: בָּנָה Sense: to build, rebuild, establish, cause to continue.
לָכֶ֤ם	to you
Parse: Preposition, second person masculine plural
עָרִים֙	cities
Parse: Noun, feminine plural Root: עִיר Sense: excitement, anguish.
לְטַפְּכֶ֔ם	for your little ones
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural Root: טַף Sense: children, little children, little ones.
וּגְדֵרֹ֖ת	and folds
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Noun, feminine plural Root: גְּדֵרָה Sense: wall, hedge.
לְצֹנַאֲכֶ֑ם	for your sheep
Parse: Preposition-l, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural Root: צֹנָא Sense: flock, sheep.
וְהַיֹּצֵ֥א	and what has proceeded
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Article, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine singular Root: יׄוצֵאת Sense: to go out, come out, exit, go forth.
מִפִּיכֶ֖ם	out of your mouth
Parse: Preposition-m, Noun, masculine singular construct, second person masculine plural Root: פֶּה Sense: mouth.

What are the major concepts related to Numbers 32:24?

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