Numbers 32:6
Good News Translation
Moses replied, "Do you want to stay here while the other Israelites go to war?

New Revised Standard Version
But Moses said to the Gadites and to the Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

Contemporary English Version
Moses answered: You mean you'd stay here while the rest of the Israelites go into battle?

New American Bible
But Moses answered the Gadites and Reubenites: “Are your kindred, then, to go to war, while you remain here?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?

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And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?

shall ye sit here

2 Samuel 11:11 And Urias said to David: The ark of God and Israel and Juda dwell in tents, and my lord Joab and the servants of my lord abide upon the face of the earth: and shall I go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to sleep with my wife? By thy welfare and by the welfare of thy soul I will not do this thing.

1 Corinthians 13:5 Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own, is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil:

Philippians 2:4 Each one not considering the things that are his own, but those that are other men's.

Context
The Tribes East of the Jordan
5And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan. 6And Moses answered them: What, shall your brethren go to fight, and will you sit here?7Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?…
Cross References
Numbers 32:5
And we pray thee, if we have found favour in thy sight, that thou give it to us thy servants in possession, and make us not pass over the Jordan.

Numbers 32:7
Why do ye overturn the minds of the children of Israel, that they may not dare to pass into the place which the Lord hath given them?

Numbers 32:5
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