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

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

² And Moses said to the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, This is the order of the Lord.

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.