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We will not return to our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited each one his inheritance.

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as my lord commands.

So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.

And Moses said unto them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben pass with you over the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land be subdued before you, then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;

And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered, saying, As Jehovah has said to thy servants, so will we do.

And Moses gave to them, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to half the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og the king of Bashan, the land, according to its cities and territories, the cities of the land round about.

And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

—And the children of Reuben built Heshbon, and Elaleh, and Kirjathaim,

—And the children of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead, and took it, and they dispossessed the Amorites that were therein.

These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who went forth out of the land of Egypt according to their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with a high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

And the children of Israel removed from Rameses, and encamped in Succoth.

And Aaron the priest went up mount Hor by the commandment of Jehovah, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel came out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first of the month.

And the Canaanite, the king of Arad who dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye pass over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan, this shall be the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, the land of Canaan according to the borders thereof.

And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall take for yourselves as inheritance by lot, which Jehovah commanded to give to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

For the tribe of the children of the Reubenites according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of the Gadites according to their fathers' houses, have received, and half the tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance;

and for the tribe of the children of Simeon, Samuel the son of Ammihud;

and for the tribe of the children of Dan, a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli;