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Numbers 32:12 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 12. 12Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
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Role in This Section
Numbers 32:12 within “Moses Warns against Repeating the Scouts' Failure,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD.
Read It With
- Numbers 32:6–15
Read Numbers 32:12 with 32:6–15. It within “Moses Warns against Repeating the Scouts' Failure,” marks where authority is questioned, shared, corrected, or transferred; in lightly modernized wording, the clause reads: Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun: for they have wholly followed the LORD. The complete unit establishes this contextual meaning: Moses asks whether the tribes will settle while brothers fight, accuses them of discouraging Israel, retells the Kadesh scouts and forty-year judgment, and warns that a new sinful generation could prolong the wilderness and destroy the people.
Continue in Context
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Read Numbers 32:6–15 — Moses Warns against Repeating the Scouts' FailureSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact reader-facing KJV wording, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete verse coverage for this thought unit.
Exact location: Numbers 32:6–15, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Numbers
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project
Open Scriptures, release 2.2, 2021
Supports: Hebrew wording, morphology, names, numbers, speeches, poems, legal clauses, older-English controls, and translation limits.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Num.xml, Masoretic words and morphology for 32:6–15
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