Numbers 32:24-30

English Standard Version

^24 (A)Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised.” ²⁵ And the people of Gad and the people of Reuben said to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. ^26 (B)Our little ones, our wives, our livestock, and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead, ^27 (C)but your servants will pass over, every man who is ^(D)armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord orders.”

²⁸ So ^(E)Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest and to ^(F)Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the people of Israel. ²⁹ And Moses said to them, “If the people of Gad and the people of Reuben, every man who is armed to battle before the Lord, will pass with you over the Jordan and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession. ³⁰ However, if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”