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32 And the livestock of the sons of Reuben and of the sons of Gad was great, very numerous. And they saw the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place of livestock. 2 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the leaders of the congregation, saying, 3 “Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon 4 are the land that Yahweh struck before the face of the congregation of Israel. It is a land of livestock, and livestock belongs to your servants.” 5 And they said, “If we have found favor in your eyes, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross over the Jordan.”

6 And Moses said to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, “Will your brothers go to the war and you yourselves will dwell here? 7 And why do you discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from crossing over into the land that Yahweh has given to them? 8 Thus your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 9 And they went up as far as the wadi of Eshkol, and they saw the land and discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel to not enter into the land that Yahweh had given to them. 10 And the nose of Yahweh burned on that day, and he swore, saying, 11 ‘If the men who went up from Egypt, from a son of 20 years and upward, will see the ground which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob! For they are not fully after me, 12 except Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua the son of Nun, because they are fully after Yahweh.’ 13 And the nose of Yahweh burned against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness 40 years until the finishing of all the generation who had done evil in the eyes of Yahweh. 14 And behold, you have risen up in place of your fathers, a brood of sinful men, to add more to the burning of the nose of Yahweh toward Israel. 15 If you turn from after him, then he will yet again leave him in the wilderness, and you will have destroyed all this people.”

16 And they came near to him and said, “Here we will build walls of the flock for our livestock and cities for our children. 17 And we ourselves will be equipped for war, hurrying before the face of the sons of Israel until when we have brought them into their place. And our children will dwell in the cities of the fortification because of the face of those who dwell in the land. 18 We will not return to our houses until the sons of Israel get an inheritance for themselves, a man his inheritance. 19 For we will not inherit with them from across of the Jordan and beyond, because our inheritance came to us from beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.”

20 And Moses said to them, “If you do this thing, if you equip yourselves before the face of Yahweh for the war, 21 then every man equipped for war shall cross over the Jordan for you before the face of Yahweh, until he has dispossessed his enemy from his face 22 and the land is subdued before the face of Yahweh, then afterward you may return. And you will be free of obligation from Yahweh and from Israel, and this land will be for you for a possession before the face of Yahweh. 23 And if you do not do so, behold, you will have sinned against Yahweh, and know that your sin will find you. 24 Build for yourselves cities for your children and walls for your livestock, and you shall do what has gone out from your mouth.” 25 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my master is commanding. 26 Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will be there in the cities of the Gilead. 27 And your servants will cross over, every man equipped for war of the army, before the face of Yahweh for the war, just as my master has spoken.”

28 And Moses commanded Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel concerning them. 29 And Moses said to them, “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben cross over the Jordan with you, every man equipped for the war before the face of Yahweh, and the land is subdued before your faces, then you will give to them the land of the Gilead as a possession. 30 And if the men equipped for war do not cross over with you, then they will take possession in your midst in the land of Canaan.” 31 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, “What Yahweh has spoken to your servants, so we will do. 32 We will cross over, the men equipped for war, before the face of Yahweh into the land of Canaan. And with us will be the possession of our inheritance from beyond the Jordan.”

33 And Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon the king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og the king of the Bashan, the land of its cities with the borders of the cities of the surrounding land. 34 And the sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer 35 and Atroth Shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah 36 and Beth Nimrah and Beth Haran, the cities of fortification and the walls of the flock. 37 And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim 38 and Nebo and Baal Meon (names were changed) and Sibmah. And they called the names of the cities that they built by names. 39 And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and captured it and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it. 40 And Moses gave the Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he dwelled in it. 41 And Jair the son of Manasseh went and captured their tent villages, and he called them Havvoth Jair. 42 And Nobah went and captured Kenath and its daughters. And he called it Nobah, by his name.

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