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.

^{34 Ref} The children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

^{35 Ref} and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,

^{36 Ref} and Beth Nimrah, and Beth Haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

^{37 Ref} The children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Kiriathaim,

^{38 Ref} and Nebo, and Baal Meon, (their names being changed), and Sibmah: and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

^{39 Ref} The children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were therein.

^{40 Ref} Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh; and he lived therein.

^{41 Ref} Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns of it, and called them Havvoth Jair.