Numbers 32:20-27 ▼

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.

23 And if you do not do so, behold, you have sinned against YHWH, and know that your sin finds you;

24 build for yourselves cities for your infants and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth you do.”

25 And the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben speak to Moses, saying, “Your servants do as my lord is commanding;

26 our infants, our wives, our livestock, and all our beasts, are there in cities of Gilead,

27 and your servants pass over, every armed one of the host, before YHWH, to battle, as my lord is saying.”