Numbers 32:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ the land that the Lord struck down before the Israelite community. It is a land for livestock, and your servants have livestock.” ⁵ They said, “If you approve our request, give this land to your servants as property. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”

⁶ Moses said to the Gadites and the Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war, while you stay here?