Deuteronomy 3:19

“But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;”

King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations

But your wiues, and your little ones, and your cattell (for I know that ye haue much cattel) shall abide in your cities, which I haue giuen you:
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

'But your wives and your little ones and your livestock (I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in your cities which I have given you,
- New American Standard Version (1995)

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
- American Standard Version (1901)

But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;
- Basic English Bible

Only your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, -- I know that ye have much cattle, -- shall abide in your cities which I have given you,
- Darby Bible

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have many cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
- Webster's Bible

But your wives, and your little ones, and your livestock, (I know that you have much livestock), shall live in your cities which I have given you,
- World English Bible

Only, your wives, and your infants, and your cattle -- I have known that ye have much cattle -- do dwell in your cities which I have given to you,
- Youngs Literal Bible

But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle--I know that ye have much cattle--shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

Bible commentary

Wesley's Notes for Deuteronomy 3:19


3:17 The plain - The low country towards Jordan. The sea of the plain - That is, that salt sea, which before that dreadful conflagration was a goodly plain.

3:18 You - Namely, the Reubenites and Gadites. All that are meet - In such number as your our brethren shall judge necessary. They were in all above an hundred thousand. Forty thousand of them went over Jordan before their brethren.


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