20 Moses replied to them: “If you will do this: Take up arms before Jehovah for the war;+ 21 and if every one of you takes up arms and crosses the Jordan before Jehovah as he drives away his enemies from before him+ 22 until the land is subdued before Jehovah,+ afterward you may return+ and be free from guilt before Jehovah and Israel. Then this land will become your possession before Jehovah.+

25 The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuʹben said this to Moses: “Your servants will do just as my lord is commanding. 26 Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our domestic animals will stay there in the cities of Gilʹe·ad,+ 27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for battle to wage war before Jehovah,+ just as my lord is speaking.”

28 So Moses gave a command concerning them to El·e·aʹzar the priest, to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the paternal houses of the tribes of Israel. 29 Moses said to them: “If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuʹben cross over the Jordan with you, every man armed for the war before Jehovah, and the land is subdued before you, you will then give them the land of Gilʹe·ad as a possession.+