Numbers 32:6
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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?

Lexicon
But Moses
מֹשֶׁ֔ה (mō·šeh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4872: Moses -- a great Israelite leader, prophet and lawgiver

asked
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

the Gadites
לִבְנֵי־ (liḇ·nê-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

and Reubenites,
וְלִבְנֵ֣י (wə·liḇ·nê)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son

“Shall your brothers
הַאַֽחֵיכֶ֗ם (ha·’a·ḥê·ḵem)
Article | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 251: A brother, )

go
יָבֹ֙אוּ֙ (yā·ḇō·’ū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

to war
לַמִּלְחָמָ֔ה (lam·mil·ḥā·māh)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 4421: A battle, war

while you
וְאַתֶּ֖ם (wə·’at·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 859: Thou and thee, ye and you

sit
תֵּ֥שְׁבוּ (tê·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

here?
פֹֽה׃ (p̄ōh)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 6311: This place, here


Additional Translations
But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to war, and shall you sit here?

And Moses said unto the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said to the sons of Gad and the sons of Ruben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye abide here?

And Moses said unto the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to the war, and shall ye sit here?

And Moses said to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?

Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, "Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here?

And Moses saith to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, 'Do your brethren go in to the battle, and ye -- do ye sit here?
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