Numbers 32:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴ And now you, a brood of sinners, have risen in place of your fathers, to increase the Lord’s fierce anger against Israel! ¹⁵ If you turn away from following him, he will again abandon them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.’

¹⁶ Then they came up to him and said, ‘We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks, and towns for our little ones,