Deuteronomy 3:19

Your wives, children, and livestock, for you have a lot of livestock, will remain behind in the towns I assigned to 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
Then we will be ready to march in battle formation ahead of the other Israelites until we have brought them to their land. Meanwhile our families will live in walled cities. They will be safe from the other people who live here.