Numbers 32:17-22 ▼

17 but we ourselves will be armed ready to go before the sons of Israel, until we have brought them to their place, and our little ones live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

18 We will not return to our homes until every one of the sons of Israel has possessed his inheritance.

19 For we will not have an inheritance with them on the other side of the Jordan and beyond because our inheritance has fallen to us on this side of the Jordan east.”

20 So Moses said to them, “If you will do this, if you will arm yourselves before Yahweh for the war,

21 and all of you armed men cross over the Jordan before Yahweh until He has dispossessed His enemies from before Him,

22 and the land is subdued before Yahweh, then afterward you shall return and be free of obligation toward Yahweh and toward Israel, and this land shall be yours for a possession before Yahweh.