Numbers 32:19-42 ▼

19 Neither wyll we inherite with them on yonder side Iordane forwarde, because our inheritaunce is fallen to vs on this side Iordane eastwarde.

20 And Moyses sayde vnto them: If ye wyll do this thyng, and go harnessed before the Lorde to warre,

21 And will go all of you in harnesse ouer Iordane before the Lord, vntil he haue cast out his enemies from his sight,

22 And vntyll the lande be subdued before the Lorde: then ye shall returne, and be without sinne before the Lorde and before Israel, and this lande shalbe your possession before the Lorde.

23 But and if ye wyll not do so, beholde, ye haue sinned agaynst the Lorde: and be sure your sinne wyll finde you out.

24 Nowe therfore, builde cities for your children, and foldes for your sheepe, and do that ye haue spoken.

25 The children of Gad, and the children of Ruben, spake vnto Moyses, saying: Thy seruauntes wyll do as my Lorde commaundeth.

26 Our children, our wyues, our sheepe, and our cattell, shall remayne here in the cities of Gilead:

27 But thy seruauntes wyll go all harnessed for the warre, and vnto battayle before the Lorde, as my Lorde sayth.

28 And for their sakes, Moyses commaunded Eleazar the priest, & Iosuah the sonne of Nun, and the chiefe fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,

29 And Moyses sayde vnto them: If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben wyl go with you ouer Iordane, all armed, to fyght before the Lorde, then when the lande is subdued before you, ye shall geue them the lande of Gilead to possesse:

30 But and if they wyll not go ouer with you in harnesse, they shall haue their possessions among you in the lande of Chanaan.

31 And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben, aunswered, saying: As the Lorde hath sayde vnto thy seruauntes, so wyll we do:

32 We wyll go harnessed before ye Lorde into the lande of Chanaan, that the possession of our inheritaunce may be geuen vs on this side Iordane.

33 And Moyses gaue vnto the children of Gad, and to the children of Ruben, and vnto halfe the tribe of Manasse the sonne of Ioseph, the kyngdome of Sehon kyng of the Amorites, and the kyngdome of Og kyng of Basan, the lande with the cities therof, in ye coastes and cities of the countrey rounde about.

34 And the children of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

35 And Atoth, Sophan, Iaaser, and Iogbea,

36 Bethnimra, and Betharan, fensed cities: & they built foldes for the sheepe.

37 And the children of Ruben built Hesbon, Eleale, Kiriathaim,

38 Nebo, Baalmeon, and turned their names, and Sibama also: and gaue other names vnto the cities which they builded.

39 And the children of Machir the sonne of Manasse went to Gilead and toke it, and put out the Amorites that dwelt therin.

40 And Moyses gaue Gilead vnto Mathir the sonne of Manasse, and he dwelt therin.

41 And Iair the sonne of Manasse went and toke the smal townes therof, and called them Hauoth Iair.

42 And Nobah went and toke Kenath, and the townes longyng therto, and called it Nobah, after his owne name.