is a land for livestock; and your servants have livestock. 032:005 They said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; don't bring us over the Jordan. 032:006 Moses said to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, Shall your brothers go to the war, and shall you sit here? 032:007 Why discourage you the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which Yahweh has given them? 032:008 Thus did your fathers, when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land. 032:009 For when they went up to the valley of Eshcol, and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the children of Israel, that they should not go into the land which Yahweh had given them. 032:010 Yahweh's anger was kindled in that day, and he swore, saying, 032:011 Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: 032:012 save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun; because they have wholly followed Yahweh. 032:013 Yahweh's anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander back and forth in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, who had done evil in the sight of Yahweh, was consumed. 032:014 Behold, you are risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel. 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;