4. The land the Lord smote before the congregation of Israel, is a land for cattle, and your servants have cattle.
5. And they said, If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us over the Jordan.
6. And Moses said to the sons of Gad and of Reuben, Shall your brethren go to war while you sit here?
7. Why do you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going over into the land which the Lord has given them?
8. Thus your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land!
9. For when they went up to the Valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the hearts of the Israelites from going into the land the Lord had given them.
10. And the Lord's anger was kindled on that day and He swore, saying,
11. Surely none of the men who came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me–
12. Except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord.
13. And the Lord's anger was kindled against Israel and He made them wander in the wilderness for forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the Lord was consumed.
14. And behold, you are risen up in your fathers' stead, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
15. For if you turn from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.
16. But they came near to him and said, We will build sheepfolds here for our flocks and walled settlements for our little ones.
17. But we will be armed and ready to go before the Israelites until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones shall dwell in the fortified settlements because of the people of the land.