¹ Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;

² The children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and said to Moses and to Eleazar the priest and to the chiefs of the meeting,

³ Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

⁴ The land which the Lord gave into the hands of the children of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.

⁵ And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

⁶ And Moses said to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben, Are your brothers to go to the war, while you take your rest here?

⁷ Why would you take from the children of Israel the desire to go over into the land which the Lord has given them?

⁸ So 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 took from the children of Israel the desire to go into the land which the Lord had given them.

¹⁰ And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,

¹¹ Truly, not one of the men of twenty years old and over who came out of Egypt will see the land which I gave by oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; because they have not been true to me with all their heart;

¹² But only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua, the son of Nun: because they have been true to the Lord.

¹³ Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.

¹⁴ And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

¹⁵ For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

¹⁶ Then they came to him, and said, We will make safe places for our cattle here, and towns for our little ones;

¹⁷ But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.

¹⁸ We will not come back to our houses till every one of the children of Israel has come into his heritage.

¹⁹ For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.

²⁰ Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,

²¹ Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

²² And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.

²³ But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.

²⁴ So get to work building your towns for your little ones, and safe places for your sheep; and do as you have said.

²⁵ And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said to Moses, Your servants will do as my lord says.

²⁶ Our little ones, our wives, and our flocks, and all our cattle, will be there in the towns of Gilead;

²⁷ But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.

²⁸ So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

²⁹ And Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben go with you over Jordan, every man armed for the fight before the Lord, and all the land is given into your hands, then let them have the land of Gilead for a heritage:

³⁰ But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.

³¹ Then the children of Gad and the children of Reuben said, As the Lord has said to your servants, so will we do.

³² We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

³³ So Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad and the children of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, king of Bashan, all the land with its towns and the country round them.

³⁴ And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

³⁵ And Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah;

³⁶ And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.

³⁷ And the children of Reuben were the builders of Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim;

³⁸ And Nebo and Baal-meon, (their names being changed,) and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the towns they made.

³⁹ And the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, went to Gilead and took it, driving out the Amorites who were living there.

⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir, the son of Manasseh; and he made it his living-place.

⁴¹ And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.

⁴² And Nobah went and took Kenath and its small towns, naming it Nobah, after himself.

¹ The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.

² And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

³ And these were the sons of Hur, the father of Etam: Jezreel and Ishma and Idbash, and the name of their sister was Hazzelelponi;

⁴ And Penuel, the father of Gedor, and Ezer, the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah, the father of Beth-lehem.

⁵ And Ashhur, the father of Tekoa, had two wives, Helah and Naarah.

⁶ And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

⁷ And the sons of Helah were Zereth, Izhar and Ethnan.

⁸ And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

⁹ And Jabez was honoured more than his brothers; but his mother had given him the name Jabez, saying, Because I gave birth to him with sorrow.

¹⁰ And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.

¹¹ And Chelub, the brother of Shuhah, was the father of Mehir, who was the father of Eshton.

¹² And Eshton was the father of Bethrapha and Paseah and Tehinnah, the father of Ir-nahash. These are the men of Recah.

¹³ And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

¹⁴ And Meonothai was the father of Ophrah; and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of Ge-harashim; they were expert workmen.

¹⁵ And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.

¹⁶ And the sons of Jehallelel: Ziph and Ziphah, Tiria and Asarel.

¹⁷ And the sons of Ezrah: Jether and Mered and Epher and Jalon; and these are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, the wife of Mered. And she became the mother of Miriam and Shammai and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.

¹⁸ And his wife, a woman of the tribe of Judah, became the mother of Jered, the father of Gedor, and Heber, the father of Soco, and Jekuthiel, the father of Zanoah.

¹⁹ And the sons of the wife of Hodiah, the sister of Naham, were the father of Keilah the Garmite, and Eshtemoa the Maacathite.

²⁰ And the sons of Shimon: Amnon and Rinnah, Ben-hanan and Tilon. And the sons of Ishi: Zoheth; and the son of Zoheth. ...

²¹ The sons of Shelah, the son of Judah: Er, the father of Lecah, and Laadah, the father of Mareshah, and the families of those who made delicate linen, of the family of Ashbea;

²² And Jokim, and the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who were rulers in Moab, and went back to Beth-lehem. And the records are very old.

²³ These were the potters, and the people living among planted fields with walls round them; they were there to do the king's work.

²⁴ The sons of Simeon: Nemuel and Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, Shaul;

²⁵ Shallum his son, Mibsam his son, Mishma his son.

²⁶ And the sons of Mishma: Hammuel his son, Zaccur his son, Shimei his son.

²⁷ And Shimei had sixteen sons and six daughters, but his brothers had only a small number of children, and their family was not as fertile as the children of Judah.

²⁸ And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,

²⁹ And at Bilhah, and at Ezem, and at Tolad,

³⁰ And at Bethuel, and at Hormah, and at Ziklag,

³¹ And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.

³² And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns;

³³ And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.

³⁴ And Meshobab and Jamlech and Joshah, the son of Amaziah,

³⁵ And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

³⁶ And Elioenai and Jaakobah and Jeshohaiah and Asaiah and Adiel and Jesimiel and Benaiah,

³⁷ And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

³⁸ These, whose names are given, were chiefs in their families, and their families became very great in number.

³⁹ And they went to the opening into Gedor, as far as the east side of the valley, in search of grass-land for their flocks.

⁴⁰ And they came to some good fertile grass-land, in a wide quiet country of peace-loving people; for the people who were living there before were of the offspring of Ham.

⁴¹ And these whose names are given came in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, and made an attack on the Meunim who were living there, and put an end to them to this day, and took their place, because there was grass there for their flocks.

⁴² And some of them, five hundred of the sons of Simeon, went to the hill-country of Seir, with Pelatiah and Neariah and Rephaiah and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi, at their head.

⁴³ And they put to death the rest of the Amalekites who had got away safely, and made it their living-place to this day.