children. sons.
cattle. In Hebrew this verse begins and ends with the word "cattle". Figure of speech Epanadiplosis (App-6), to emphasise the first cause of this division.
behold. Figure of speech Asterismos, to strengthen the emphasis.
Related Commentaries of Numbers 32:1
Numbers 32:1
1 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;