17. Then we’ll be ready ⌊to march⌋ in battle formation ahead of the other Israelites until we have brought them to their land. Meanwhile our families will live in walled cities, safe from the other people who live here.
18. We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has received his own land.
19. We won’t take possession of any land on the other side of the Jordan River, to the west and beyond. We already have our land here, east of the Jordan.”