032:015 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave
them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.
032:016 They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds
here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones:
032:017 but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children
of Israel, until we have brought them to their place:
and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities
because of the inhabitants of the land.
032:018 We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel
have inherited every man his inheritance.
032:019 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.
032:020 Moses said to them, If you will do this thing, if you will arm
yourselves to go before Yahweh to the war,
032:021 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh,
until he has driven out his enemies from before him,
032:022 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.
032:023 But if you will not do so, behold, you have sinned against Yahweh;
and be sure your sin will find you out.
032:024 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep;
and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.
032:025 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses,
saying, Your servants will do as my lord commands.
032:026 Our little ones, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock,
shall be there in the cities of Gilead;
032:027 but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war,
before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.
032:028 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.
032:029 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:
032:030 but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall
have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.
032:031 The children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying,
As Yahweh has said to your servants, so will we do.
032:032 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.
032:033 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,
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