5. They continued, “If we find favor with you, let this land be given to your servants as their possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
6. But Moses answered the Gadites and Reubenites: “Are your kindred, then, to go to war, while you remain here?
7. Why do you wish to discourage the Israelites from crossing to the land the Lord has given them?
8. That is just what your ancestors did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to reconnoiter the land.
9. They went up to the Wadi Eshcol and reconnoitered the land, then so discouraged the Israelites that they would not enter the land the Lord had given them.