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We will not return into our houses until the children of Israel possess their inheritance:

Build therefore cities for your children, and folds and stalls for your sheep and beasts, and accomplish what you have promised.

And the children of Gad and Ruben said to Moses: We are thy servants, we will do what my lord commandeth.

We will leave our children, and our wives and sheep and cattle, in the cities of Galaad:

If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.

And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:

Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about.

But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof.

These are the mansions of the children of Israel, who went out of Egypt by their troops under the conduct of Moses and Aaron,

Now the children of Israel departed from Ramesses the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month, the day after the phase, with a mighty hand, in the sight of all the Egyptians,

And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment of the Lord: and there he died in the fortieth year of the coming forth of the children of Israel out of Egypt, the fifth month, the first day of the month,

And king Arad the Chanaanite, who dwelt towards the south, heard that the children of Israel were come to the land of Chanaan.

Command the children of Israel, and say to them: When you shall have passed over the Jordan, entering into the land of Chanaan,

Command the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: When you are entered into the land of Chanaan, and it shall be fallen into your possession by lot, it shall be bounded by these limits:

And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying: This shall be the land which you shall possess by lot, and which the Lord hath commanded to be given to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe.

For the tribe of the children of Ruben by their families, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the number of their kindreds, and half of the tribe of Manasses,

Of the tribe of the children of Dan, Bocci the son of Jogli.

Of the children of Joseph of the tribe of Manasses, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

These are they Whom the Lord hath commanded to divide the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel.