We will not return to our homes until each of the Israelites has received their inheritance.

We will not receive any inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan, because our inheritance has come to us on the east side of the Jordan.”

The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “We your servants will do as our lord commands.

Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight before the Lord, just as our lord says.”

They said, “When the Lord commanded my lord to give the land as an inheritance to the Israelites by lot, he ordered you to give the inheritance of our brother Zelophehad to his daughters.

Now suppose they marry men from other Israelite tribes; then their inheritance will be taken from our ancestral inheritance and added to that of the tribe they marry into. And so part of the inheritance allotted to us will be taken away.

When the Year of Jubilee for the Israelites comes, their inheritance will be added to that of the tribe into which they marry, and their property will be taken from the tribal inheritance of our ancestors.”