Numbers 32:16
Hebrew Text— Numbers 32:16They came near to him, and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones;
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and in the valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan’s bank, to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
He said to the men of Succoth, “Please give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “I will triumph. I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.
Build cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.”
Why did you sit among the sheepfolds? To hear the whistling for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben, there were great searchings of heart.
He went up there to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered.
He took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
They found written in the law how Yahweh had commanded by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month;
Jacob traveled to Succoth, built himself a house, and made shelters for his livestock. Therefore the name of the place is called Succoth.
The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
They took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.
You shall dwell in temporary shelters for seven days. All who are native-born in Israel shall dwell in temporary shelters,
When a man vows a vow to Yahweh, or swears an oath to bind his soul with a bond, he shall not break his word. He shall do according to all that proceeds out of his mouth.
Of the tribe of the children of Dan a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli.
He caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and inquired of him; and he described for him the princes of Succoth, and its elders, seventy-seven men.
The king cast them in the plain of the Jordan, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zarethan.
God has spoken from his sanctuary: “In triumph, I will divide Shechem, and measure out the valley of Succoth.