Thomson(i)
1 Then Joshua convened the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses,
2 and said to them, You have hearkened to all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you; and you have obeyed my orders according to all that he commanded you.
3 You have not for these many years left your brethren: even to this day you have kept the command of the Lord your God.
4 Now the Lord our God hath given our brethren rest as he promised them. Now therefore return and go to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses gave you on the bank of the Jordan.
5 But be very careful to perform the commandments and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you to do, to love the Lord our God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him and serve him with your whole heart, and with your whole soul.
6 Then Joshua blessed them and dismissed them, and they set out on their return to their homes.
7 Now to one half of the tribe of Manasses Moses had given a possession in Basanitis, and to the other half Joshua gave one on the western side of the Jordan, among their brethren. So when Joshua had sent them away to their homes, and blessed them,
8 they set out homewards with much wealth, for they had shared with their brethren, vast numbers of cattle, and a great abundance of silver, and gold, and iron, and raiment, the spoil of their enemies.
9 And when the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasses, had set out from the children of Israel, at Selo in the land of Chanaan, to go to Galaad, to the land of their possession, which they had got from Moses by the command of the Lord,