^{18 Ref} We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

^{19 Ref} For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.

^{20 Ref} Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,

²¹ and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,

^{22 Ref} and the land is subdued before Yahweh; then afterward you shall return, and be guiltless towards Yahweh, and towards Israel; and this land shall be to you for a possession before Yahweh.

^{23 Ref} But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh; and be sure your sin will find you out.

^{24 Ref} Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

^{25 Ref} The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.

^{26 Ref} Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our cattle, shall be there in the cities of Gilead;

^{27 Ref} but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.

^{28 Ref} So Moses gave charge concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel.

²⁹ Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

^{30 Ref} but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

³¹ The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.

³² We will pass over armed before Yahweh into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance [shall remain] with us beyond the Jordan.

^{33 Ref} Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children 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, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.