¹³ Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said to you, The Lord your God is sending you rest and will give you this land.

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.

¹⁸ At that time I gave you orders, saying, The Lord has given you this land for your heritage: all the men of war are to go over armed before your brothers the children of Israel.

¹⁹ But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for it is clear that you have much cattle) may go on living in the towns I have given you;

²⁰ Till the Lord has given rest to your brothers as to you, and till they have taken for themselves the land which the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of Jordan: then you may go back, every man of you, to the heritage which I have given you.

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.