Deuteronomy 3:19
Only your wives and your little children and your livestock (I know that {you have much livestock}) must stay in your towns that I have given you,
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But your wives, and your little ones, and your cattle, (for I know that ye have much cattle,) shall abide in your cities which I have given you;
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Numbers 32:17
but we ourselves will become armed [and] ready before the {Israelites} until we have brought them to their place, and our little children will live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.