⁶ Let life not death be Reuben's, let not the number of his men be small.

³ Reuben, you are my oldest son, the first-fruit of my strength, first in pride and first in power:

⁴ But because you were uncontrolled, the first place will not be yours; for you went up to your father's bed, even his bride-bed, and made it unclean.

⁸ To you, Judah, will your brothers give praise: your hand will be on the neck of your haters; your father's sons will go down to the earth before you.

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.

¹ Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

² And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:

³ You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.

⁴ And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.

⁵ Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.

⁶ Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.

⁷ Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,

⁸ And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.

⁹ So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.