Numbers - 32:21



21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

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And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,
And let every fighting man pass over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrow his enemies :
and all of you that are armed go over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he have dispossessed his enemies from before him,
and every armed one of you hath passed over the Jordan before Jehovah, till his dispossessing His enemies from before Him,
Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,
And let every fighting man cross over the Jordan, until the Lord overthrows his enemies,
Et transierint ex vobis omnes accincti armis ipsum Jordanem ante, Jehovam, donec expulerit inimicos suos a facie sua,

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Scholarly Analysis and Interpretation.

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD, until he hath driven out his (g) enemies from before him,
(g) That is, the inhabitants of the land.

And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the Lord,.... Moses tries them thoroughly, and is very express in his words, requiring them not only to go armed, or march from the place where they were, towards the land of Canaan, but to go over Jordan, and not some of them only, but all, and that before the Lord; though indeed, when the tribes came to the river Jordan, the ark, which was the symbol of the divine Presence, went before all the tribes into it, and there stayed till they passed over, and then these two tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh passed before the children of Israel, and before the Lord, unto battle, Joshua 3:11.
until he hath driven out his enemies before him: the Canaanites, who were the enemies of the Lord, as well as of his people; and because of their sins, in which they showed their enmity to God, the land spewed them out, and he drove them out to make way for his people Israel, and till this was done the tribes of Reuben and Gad were to continue with them.

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