26. Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,
27. but your servants will cross over, each man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord says.”
28. So Moses commanded Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel.
29. And Moses said to them, “If the children of Gad and the children of Reuben will cross over the Jordan with you, each man armed for battle before the Lord, and the land will be subdued before you, you are to give them the land of Gilead as a possession.