¹ And multitude of livestock for the sons of Reuben and for the sons of Gad was very numerous; and they saw the land of Jaazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock,

² the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben came and said to^▵ Moses, and to^▵ Eleazar the priest, and to^▵ the chiefs of the congregation, saying,

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

⁴ the land which Jehovah smote before the congregation of Israel, it^◦ is a land for livestock, and thy servants have livestock;

⁵ and they said, If we have·​·found grace in thine eyes, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession^◦; bring· us not ·across the Jordan.

⁶ And Moses said to^▵ the sons of Gad and to^▵ the sons of Reuben, Shall your brothers go·​·in to battle, and you shall sit here?

⁷ And why do you discourage the heart of the sons of Israel from going·​·across into^▵ the land which Jehovah has given to them?

⁸ Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land,

⁹ and they went·​·up to^◦ the brook of Eshcol, and saw the land; they discouraged the heart of the sons of Israel, that they should not^▵ go·​·in to^▵ the land which Jehovah had given them.

¹⁰ And Jehovah’s anger was·​·fierce in that^◦ day, and He promised, saying,

¹¹ Shall the men^◦ who went·​·up out·​·of Egypt, from a son of twenty years and upward, see the ground which I promised to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob? for they have not fully followed after Me;

¹² except^▵ Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have fully followed after Jehovah.

¹³ And the anger of Jehovah was·​·fierce against^◦ Israel, and He made them meander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation who had done the evil in the eyes of Jehovah was entirely consumed.

¹⁴ And, behold, you have risen·​·up in your fathers’ stead, a multiplying of men^◦, sinners, to add yet·​·again onto^◦ the fierce anger of Jehovah toward^▵ Israel.

¹⁵ If^▫ you turn·​·back from following after Him, then He will yet again place them in the wilderness; and you shall destroy all this people.

¹⁶ And they approached him, and said, We will build fences of the flock for our livestock here, and cities for our infants;

¹⁷ but we^◦ ourselves will hurry armed^◦ before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to^▵ their place; and our infants shall dwell in the fortified cities on·​·account·​·of^◦ those dwelling·​·in the land.

¹⁸ We will not return to^▵ our houses, until the sons of Israel have inherited each·​·man^◦ his inheritance.

¹⁹ For we will not inherit with^◦ them from the crossing of^◦ the Jordan and beyond; for our inheritance has come to^▵ us from the crossing of the Jordan toward the sunrise.

²⁰ And Moses said to^▵ them, If you will do this thing, if you will go armed^◦ before Jehovah to war,

²¹ and will cross· all of^◦ you armed^◦ ·over the Jordan before Jehovah, until He has dispossessed His enemies from before Him,

²² and the land be subdued before Jehovah; then after this you shall return, and be innocent before Jehovah, and before Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession^◦ before Jehovah.

²³ But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against^▵ Jehovah; and know that your sin will find you.

²⁴ Build for yourselves cities for your infants, and fences for your flock; and you shall do that which has gone·​·out from your mouth.

²⁵ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben said to^▵ Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as^◦ my lord commands.

²⁶ Our infants, our wives, our livestock, and all our beasts, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

²⁷ but thy servants will cross·​·over, every man armed^◦ for the army, before Jehovah for the battle, as^◦ my lord speaks.

²⁸ And as·​·to them 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;

²⁹ and Moses said to^▵ them, If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben will cross· with^◦ you ·over the Jordan, every man armed^◦ for the battle, before Jehovah, 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 cross·​·over with^◦ you armed^◦, then they shall have·​·possession^◦ in your midst in the land of Canaan.

³¹ And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, What Jehovah has spoken to^▵ thy servants, so we will do.

³² We^▵ will cross·​·over armed^◦ before Jehovah into the land of Canaan, and the possession^◦ of our inheritance across the Jordan may be with us.

³³ And Moses gave to them, even to the sons of Gad, and to the sons 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, with her cities in the borders, the cities of the land all around.

³⁴ And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

³⁵ and Atroth, Shophan, and Jaazer, and Jogbehah,

³⁶ and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran, fortified cities; and fences for the flock.

³⁷ And the sons of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

³⁸ and Nebo, and Baalmeon, their names being changed^*, and Sibmah; and they called by names the names of the cities which they built.

³⁹ And the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to^▫ Gilead, and took^◦ it, and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it.

⁴⁰ And Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he dwelt in her.

⁴¹ And Jair the son of Manasseh went^◦ and took^◦ her hamlets, and called them Havoth-jair^*.

⁴² And Nobah went^◦ and captured Kenath, and her villages^*, and called her Nobah, after his own name.

¹ And Joshua was·​·old, and came·​·into days; and Jehovah said to^▵ him, Thou^◦ art·​·old, and come·​·into days, and the land that is left is· very ·much to be possessed.

² This is the land that is left; all the boundaries of the Philistines and all the Geshurite.

³ From Shichor which is before Egypt, and even·​·to the border of Ekron northward, is reckoned to the Canaanite, five satraps of the Philistines; the Gazathite, and the Ashdodite, the Eshkalonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite, and the Avim.

⁴ From the south^◦ all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah which belongs to the Zidonians, even·​·to Aphek, even·​·to the border of the Amorite;

⁵ and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the rising^◦ of the sun from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon, until one comes to Ḥamath;

⁶ all who dwelt·​·in the mountain from Lebanon even·​·to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; I^▵ will dispossess them from before the sons of Israel; only let it fall to Israel for an inheritance, as^◦ I have commanded thee.

⁷ And now, part this land for an inheritance for the nine tribes^◦ and the half tribe^◦ of Manasseh.

⁸ With^▵ him the Reubenite and the Gadite have taken their inheritance which Moses gave them across Jordan toward the sunrise, as^◦ Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.

⁹ From Aroer, which is by^◦ the lip of the brook Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the brook, and all the plateau of Medeba to^◦ Dibon.

¹⁰ And all the cities of Siḥon, king of the Amorite who reigned in Heshbon, to^◦ the border of the sons of Ammon.

¹¹ And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurite, and the Maachathite and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to^◦ Salchah.

¹² All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei; he^◦ was left of the remnant of the Rephaim; and Moses smote them and dispossessed them.

¹³ And the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurite and the Maachathite; and Geshur and Maachah dwell in the midst^◦ of Israel to^◦ this day.

¹⁴ Only unto the tribe^◦ of Levi he gave no^◦ inheritance; the fire·​·offerings of Jehovah, the God of Israel, are his inheritance as^◦ He^◦ spoke unto him.

¹⁵ And Moses gave unto the tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their families.

¹⁶ And their^◦ border is from Aroer, which is by^◦ the lip of the brook of Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the brook, and all the plateau by^◦ Medeba;

¹⁷ Heshbon and all her cities that are on^◦ the plateau, Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,

¹⁸ and Jahaz, and Kedemoth and Mephaath,

¹⁹ and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shachar in the mountain of the valley,

²⁰ and Beth-peor, and the watercourses of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,

²¹ and all the cities of the plateau, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes^◦ of Sihon, who dwelt in the land.

²² And Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, the sons of Israel killed with the sword upon their slain.

²³ And the border of the sons of Reuben was the Jordan and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the sons of Reuben for their families, the cities and their villages.

²⁴ And Moses gave to the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad for their families;

²⁵ and the border for them was Jaazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the sons of Ammon even·​·to Aroer which is against the face of Rabbah;

²⁶ and from Heshbon even·​·to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim; and from Mahanaim even·​·to the border for Debir;

²⁷ and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the remainder of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, even·​·to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth across the Jordan toward the sunrise.

²⁸ This is the inheritance of the sons of Gad, according·​·to their families, the cities and their villages.

²⁹ And Moses gave an inheritance to the half tribe^◦ of Manasseh; and it was for the half tribe^* of the sons of Manasseh according·​·to their families.

³⁰ And their border was from Mahanaim, all of Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the hamlets of Jair which are in Bashan, sixty cities;

³¹ and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities from the kingdom of Og in Bashan; for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for half of the sons of Machir for their families.

³² These are what Moses, in the deserts of Moab, across the Jordan near Jericho toward the sunrise, gave·​·for·​·an·​·inheritance.

³³ But to the tribe^◦ of Levi Moses gave not an inheritance; Jehovah, the God of Israel, He^◦ is their inheritance, as^◦ He spoke to them.