Numbers 32:26-40

26Our women, children and our animals will stay here in Gilead's towns.

27But all our men who are able to fight will cross over the river. We will fight on behalf of the Lord, as you have said that we should do.’

28Moses gave this message to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun and to the leaders of the family clans.

29He said to them, ‘The men in Reuben's tribe and in Gad's tribe must cross over the Jordan River to fight with you on behalf of the Lord. If they do that, you must give to them the land here in Gilead. When you have won power over the whole land, then this land will belong to them.

30If they refuse to fight together with the other tribes, they will have no land here. They must have part of the land in Canaan, like the other tribes.’

31The men in the tribes of Reuben and Gad said, ‘We will do what the Lord has told us to do.

32We will take our weapons and we will cross over the Jordan River to fight on behalf of the Lord in Canaan. But then we will live in our land here on this side of the river.’

33So Moses gave to them all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and Og, the king of Bashan. He gave to them the land with its towns and all the land round the towns. He gave it to the descendants of Gad and of Reuben and half of the tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh.

34The men in the tribe of Gad built up again Dibon, Ataroth and Aroer.

35They also built up again Atroth-Shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

36Beth-Nimrah and Beth-Haran. They built houses for their families and their animals.

37The men in the tribe of Reuben built up again Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim.

38Nebo, Baal-Meon and Sibmah. They gave new names to the cities that they built up again.

39The descendants of Makir, the son of Manasseh, attacked Gilead. They sent away the people who lived there.

40So Moses gave Gilead to the descendants of Makir who was the son of Manasseh. And they lived there.