Numbers 32:16-22 ▼

16 And they come near to him and say, “We build folds for the flock here for our livestock, and cities for our infants;

17 but we are armed, hastening before the sons of Israel until we have brought them to their place; and our infants have dwelt in the cities of defense because of the inhabitants of the land;

18 we do not return to our houses until the sons of Israel have each inherited his inheritance,

19 for we do not inherit with them across the Jordan and beyond, for our inheritance has come to us beyond the Jordan at the [sun]-rising.”

20 And Moses says to them, “If you do this thing, if you are armed before YHWH for battle,

21 and every armed one of you has passed over the Jordan before YHWH, until His dispossessing His enemies from before Him,

22 and the land has been subdued before YHWH, then afterward you return, and have been acquitted by YHWH and by Israel, and this land has been to you for a possession before YHWH.