[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; [2] the children of
Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the
priest, and to the princes of the congregation, saying, [3] Ataroth, and
Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and
Nebo, and Beon, [4] the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of
Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle. [5] They said,
If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your
servants for a possession; don`t bring us over the Jordan. [6] Moses said
to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers
go to the war, and shall you sit here? [7] Why discourage you the heart of
the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given
them? [8] Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see
the land. [9] For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the
land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they
should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. [10] Yahweh`s
anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, [11] Surely none of
the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall
see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they
have not wholly followed me: [12] save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed
Yahweh. [13] Yahweh`s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them
wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the
generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed. [14]
Behold, you are risen up in your fathers` place, an increase of sinful men,
to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel. [15] For if you
turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness;
and you will destroy all this people. [16] They came near to him, and said,
We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little
ones: [17] but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them to their place: and our little ones
shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
[18] We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have
inherited every man his inheritance. [19] For we will not inherit with them
on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is
fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward. [20] Moses said to them,
If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh
to the war, [21] and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan
before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him, [22]
and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and
be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to
you for a possession before Yahweh. [23] But if you will not do so, behold,
you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.
[24] Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and
do that which has proceeded out of your mouth. [25] The children of Gad and
the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my
lord commands. [26] Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our
cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead; [27] but your servants will
pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my
lord says. [28] So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest,
and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers` [houses] of
the tribes of the children of Israel. [29] Moses said to them, If the
children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the
Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall
be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a
possession: [30] but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall
have possessions among you in the land of Canaan. [31] The children of Gad
and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your
servants, so will we do. [32] We will pass over armed before Yahweh into
the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain]
with us beyond the Jordan. [33] Moses gave to them, even to the children of
Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the
son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom
of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their]
borders, even the cities of the land round about. [34] The children of Gad
built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, [35] and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and
Jogbehah, [36] and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds
for sheep. [37] The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and
Kiriathaim, [38] and Nebo, and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and
Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built. [39] The
children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and
dispossessed the Amorites who were therein. [40] Moses gave Gilead to
Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein. [41] Jair the son of
Manasseh went and took the towns of it, and called them Havvoth-jair. [42]
Nobah went and took Kenath, and the villages of it, and called it Nobah,
after his own name.

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