Numbers 32:20
New International Version
Then Moses said to them, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle

New Living Translation
Then Moses said, “If you keep your word and arm yourselves for the LORD’s battles,

English Standard Version
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,

Berean Standard Bible
Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

King James Bible
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,

New King James Version
Then Moses said to them: “If you do this thing, if you arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

New American Standard Bible
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

NASB 1995
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

NASB 1977
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for the war,

Legacy Standard Bible
So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before Yahweh for the war,

Amplified Bible
Moses replied, “If you will do as you say, if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for war,

Christian Standard Bible
Moses replied to them, “If you do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Moses replied to them, “If you do this—if you arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

American Standard Version
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will arm yourselves to go before Jehovah to the war,

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Moshe said to them, “If you make this answer, also equip yourselves before LORD JEHOVAH for battle,

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And Moses said to them, If ye will do according to these words, if ye will arm yourselves before the Lord for battle,

Contemporary English Version
Moses said: You promised that you would be ready to fight for the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses said to them: If you do what you promise, go on well appointed for war before the Lord:

English Revised Version
And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing; If ye will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Moses answered, "Do what you have said. In the LORD's presence have all your armed men get ready for battle.

Good News Translation
Moses answered, "If you really mean what you say, then here in the presence of the LORD get ready to go into battle.

International Standard Version
"If you do this," Moses replied to them, "that is, if you equip yourselves for war in the LORD's presence

JPS Tanakh 1917
And Moses said unto them: 'If ye will do this thing: if ye will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

Literal Standard Version
And Moses says to them, “If you do this thing, if you are armed before YHWH for battle,

Majority Standard Bible
Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

New American Bible
Moses said to them in reply: “If you do this—if you march as troops before the LORD into battle

NET Bible
Then Moses replied, "If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the LORD,

New Revised Standard Version
So Moses said to them, “If you do this—if you take up arms to go before the LORD for the war,

New Heart English Bible
Moses said to them, "If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before the LORD to the war,

Webster's Bible Translation
And Moses said to them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,

World English Bible
Moses said to them: “If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

Young's Literal Translation
And Moses saith unto them, 'If ye do this thing: if ye are armed before Jehovah for battle,

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Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
19Yet we will not have an inheritance with them across the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.” 20Moses replied, “If you will do this— if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle, 21and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,…

Cross References
Numbers 32:21
and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

Deuteronomy 3:18
At that time I commanded you: "The LORD your God has given you this land to possess. All your men of valor are to cross over, armed for battle, ahead of your brothers, the Israelites.

Joshua 1:12
But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

Joshua 22:1
Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh


Treasury of Scripture

And Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed before the LORD to war,

Deuteronomy 3:18-20
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war…

Joshua 1:13-15
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land…

Joshua 4:12,13
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: …

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(20) if ye will go armed before the Lord . . . --The same verb and the same preposition are here used which are used in Numbers 32:17. It may be inferred from this expression that the army of the Israelites was regarded as the army of the Lord; and it seems probable that there is a reference to the ark of the Lord as being carried on certain occasions into the war. If the order of march prescribed in the second chapter of this Book was still observed, there may be a reference to the fact that the tribes of Reuben and Gad, which encamped on the south side of the Tabernacle, immediately preceded the ark (see Numbers 10:18-22), just as those of Ephraim, Benjamin, and Manasseh immediately followed it (Psalm 80:2). At the time of the passage of the Jordan, the priests who bare the ark stood still in the river until the whole of the people had passed over "before the ark of the Lord" (Joshua 4:5; Joshua 4:11); but at the siege of Jericho it appears that the ark was carried in the midst of the host, some of the armed men going before it, and some following after it (Joshua 6:9). If this is the true meaning of the word "before the Lord," it was natural that the Reubenites, or their spokesman, should first use the words "before the children of Israel" in Numbers 32:17, and should not adopt the expression "before the Lord," as in Numbers 32:32, until it had been previously employed by Moses. . . . Verse 20. - Before the Lord. Perhaps in a quasi-local sense, as the vanguard of the host before the sacred symbols of the Lord's presence (see on chapter Numbers 10:21, and Joshua 6:9). But since the same expression (לִפְנֵי יְהוָה) is twice used in a much vaguer sense in verse 22, it is more probable that it only means "in the Lord's service, or "beneath his eye."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
“If
אִֽם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you do
תַּעֲשׂ֖וּן (ta·‘ă·śūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 6213: To do, make

this,”
הַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that

Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

replied,
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“if
אִם־ (’im-)
Conjunction
Strong's 518: Lo!, whether?, if, although, Oh that!, when, not

you will arm yourselves
תֵּחָֽלְצ֛וּ (tê·ḥā·lə·ṣū)
Verb - Nifal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2502: To pull off, to strip, to depart, to deliver, equip, present, strengthen

before
לִפְנֵ֥י (lip̄·nê)
Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct
Strong's 6440: The face

the LORD
יְהוָ֖ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

for battle,
לַמִּלְחָמָֽה׃ (lam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 4421: A battle, war


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