3. "Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon is
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?
7. Why would you destroy the Israelites’ resolve to cross into the land that the Lord gave them?
8. Your ancestors did this, when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to inspect the land.
9. They went up to the Cluster ravine, saw the land, and destroyed the Israelites’ resolve to enter the land that the Lord had given them.
10. The Lord became angry on that day and promised,
11. ‘None of the persons that went up from Egypt, those 20 years old and above, will see the fertile ground that I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they didn’t remain true to me,
12. except Caleb, Jephunneh the Kenizzite’s son, and Joshua, Nun’s son, because they remained true to the Lord.’