Numbers 32:5
Good News Translation
Please give us this land as our property, and do not make us cross the Jordan River and settle there."

New Revised Standard Version
They continued, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not make us cross the Jordan.”

Contemporary English Version
would you let us stay here east of the Jordan River and have this land as our own?"

New American Bible
They continued, “If we find favor with you, let this land be given to your servants as their possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.

if we have

Genesis 19:19 Because thy servant hath found grace before thee, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewn to me, in saving my life, and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil seize me, and I die.

Ruth 2:10 She fell on her face, and worshipping upon the ground, said to him: Whence cometh this to me, that I should find grace before thy eyes, and that thou shouldst vouchsafe to take notice of me, a woman of another country?

1 Samuel 20:3 And he swore again to David. And David said: Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, and he will say: Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved. But truly as the Lord liveth, and thy soul liveth, there is but one step (as I may say) between me and death.

2 Samuel 14:22 And Joab falling down to the ground upon his face, adored, and blessed the king: and Joab said: This day thy servant hath understood, that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king: for thou hast fulfilled the request of thy servant.

Esther 5:2 And when he saw Esther the queen standing, she pleased his eyes, and he held out toward her the golden sceptre, which he held in his hand and she drew near, and kissed the top of his sceptre.

Jeremiah 31:2 Thus saith the Lord: The people that were left and escaped from the sword, found grace in the desert: Israel shall go to his rest.

bring us

Deuteronomy 1:37 Neither is his indignation against the people to be wondered at, since the Lord was angry with me also on your account, and said: Neither shalt thou go in thither.

Deuteronomy 3:25,26 I will pass over therefore, and will see this excellent land beyond the Jordan, and this goodly mountain, and Libanus. . . .

Joshua 7:7 And Joshua said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God we had stayed beyond the Jordan, as we began.

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
4The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle: 5And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.6And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?…
Cross References
Numbers 32:4
The land, which the Lord hath conquered in the sight of the children of Israel, is a very fertile soil for the feeding of beasts: and we thy servants have very much cattle:

Numbers 32:6
And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?

Numbers 32:4
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