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Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;

the land which Yahweh struck before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle; and your servants have cattle.

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.

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.

For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and you will destroy all this people.

They came near to him, and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our cattle, and cities for our little ones:

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.

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.

Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which has proceeded out of your mouth.

but your servants will pass over, every man who is armed for war, before Yahweh to battle, as my lord says.

Moses said to them, If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will pass with you over the Jordan, every man who is armed to battle, before Yahweh, and the land shall be subdued before you; then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession:

and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

They journeyed from Alush, and encamped in Rephidim, where was no water for the people to drink.

and you shall take possession of the land, and dwell therein; for to you have I given the land to possess it.

Command the children of Israel, and tell them, When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to the borders of it),

For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor;

for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their fathers' houses, and the tribe of the children of Gad according to their fathers' houses, have received, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received, their inheritance:

These are the names of the men who shall divide the land to you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.