Numbers - 32:18



18 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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Explanation and meaning of Numbers 32:18.

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We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance:
We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited each one his inheritance.
we do not turn back unto our houses till the sons of Israel have inherited each his inheritance,
We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

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Historical Commentaries

Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

We will not return unto our houses,.... In the cities built or repaired by them, or to their families, and their substance, their flocks and their herds; all which they should leave behind them, and never think of returning to them:
until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance; until all the tribes were settled in their respective places, and every family and everyone in them had their portion assigned them; and accordingly they did not return until the land was wholly subdued, nor even until every lot came up, and the land was divided by it, and the inheritance of the several tribes fixed, and even the cities of the Levites assigned to them out of the several tribes; see Joshua 22:1.

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