The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: of Israel, is a land for cattle, and thy servants have cattle:
NUM 32:5 Wherefore, said they, if we have found grace in thy sight, let
this land be given unto thy servants for a possession, and bring us not
over Jordan.
NUM 32:6 And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of
Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?
NUM 32:7 And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of
Israel from going over into the land which the LORD hath given them?
NUM 32:8 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadeshbarnea to
see the land.
NUM 32:9 For when they went up unto the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
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