Numbers 32 Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock,

Thomson⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Now the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, had a great multitude of cattle, and having taken a view of the country of Jazer, and the region of Galaad, and seen that it was a place fit for stock, ² the Reubenites and the Gadites came to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the chiefs of the congregation and said, ³ Ataroth, and Daibon, and Jazer, and Namra, and Esebon, and Eleale, and Sebama, and Nabo, and Baian, ⁴ the land which the Lord delivered up before the children of Israel, is a land fit for raising stock, and thy servants have cattle; ⁵ if therefore, said they, we have found favour in thy sight, let this land be given to thy servants for a possession, and cause us not to cross the Jordan. ⁶ Whereupon Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, Must your brethren go to war, and you sit still here? ⁷ Besides, why do you divert the thoughts of the Israelites from crossing over into the land which the Lord giveth them? ⁸ Did not your fathers do so, when I sent them from Kades-Barne to view the land? ⁹ When they had passed through the valley of grapes, and viewed the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites from going to the land which the Lord gave them; ¹⁰ and the anger of the Lord was kindled that day, and he sware saying, ¹¹ These men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upwards, who know good and evil, shall not see the land, which I with an oath promised to Abraham, and Isaak, and Jacob; [for they have not followed me] ¹² save Chaleb, son of Jephonne, who separated himself from them, and Joshua, son of Nave, because they followed the Lord. ¹³ So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he led them about in the wilderness forty years, until all that generation, who had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed. ¹⁴ Behold you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a set of sinful men, to augment the wrath of the Lord against Israel. ¹⁵ For by turning away from him, to cause him to leave you still in the wilderness, you will transgress against the whole congregation. ¹⁶ Upon this they came near to him, and said, We will build sheepcots here for our cattle, and cities for our families, ¹⁷ but we ourselves, completely armed, will march in the van before the children of Israel, until we bring them to their place. Our families indeed must dwell in walled cities, because of the inhabitants of the land, ¹⁸ that we may not be under a necessity of returning to our houses, until the children of Israel are parcelled out, every one in his possession. ¹⁹ Moreover we will not take a share with them of the land beyond the river Jordan, because we have got our share on the eastern side of the Jordan. ²⁰ Then Moses said to them, If you will act agreeably to what you say; if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, ²¹ and every one, completely armed, will cross the Jordan before the Lord, until his enemy be crushed before him, ²² and the land subdued before the Lord, after this you shall return, and be guiltless before the Lord, and acquitted by Israel, and this land shall be your possession before the Lord. ²³ But if you do not act in this manner, you will sin against the Lord, and you shall be sensible of your sin, when evils overtake you. ²⁴ Build therefore cities for your families, and sheepcots for your cattle, and perform what hath proceeded out of your mouth. ²⁵ And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad spake to Moses, saying, Thy servants will do as our Lord commandeth; ²⁶ our families, and our wives, and our cattle, shall remain in the cities of Galaad; ²⁷ but we thy servants will cross over, all armed, and arrayed for battle before the Lord, as our lord saith. ²⁸ Then Moses convened with them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, son of Nave, and the chiefs of the patriarchal houses of the tribes of Israel, ²⁹ and said to them, If the Reubenites and the Gadites cross the Jordan with you, every one armed for battle before the Lord, when you shall have subdued the land before you, you shall give them the land of Galaad for a possession. ³⁰ But if they decline to cross with you, armed for battle before the Lord; you shall drive before you their families, and their wives, and their cattle, into the land of Chanaan, and they shall have a portion with you in the land of Chanaan. ³¹ And the Reubenites and the Gadites answered, saying, All that our lord saith to his servants we will do. ³² We will cross over, completely armed before the Lord, into the land of Chanaan, and you shall give us our possession on this side of the Jordan. ³³ So Moses gave them, namely, to the Gadites and the Reubenites, and to the half of the tribe of Manasses, one of the sons of Joseph, the kingdom of Seon, king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, the land and the cities, with the boundaries thereof, even the cities of the land round about. ³⁴ And the Gadites rebuilt Daibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer, ³⁵ and Sophar, and Jazer, and raised these, namely, ³⁶ Namram and Baithara, fenced cities, and folds for sheep. ³⁷ And the Reubenites rebuilt Esebon, and Eleale, and Kariatham, ³⁸ and Beelmeon, which they enclosed all around, and Sebama; and they named the cities which they rebuilt after their own names. ³⁹ Now a descendant of Machir, son of Manasses, had gone to Galaad, and taken it, and destroyed the Amorite who dwelt there. ⁴⁰ So Moses gave Galaad to the community of Machir, son of Manasses, and they dwelt there. ⁴¹ And Jair, of the tribe of Manasses, went and took their sheepcots, and called them the sheepcots of Jair. ⁴² And Nabau went and took Kaath, and its villages, and called them Naboth after his own name.