24. Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do.”
25. So the descendants of Gad and the descendants of Reuben said to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands.
26. Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals will remain in the cities of Gilead,
27. but your servants, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross over before Yahweh to the war, just as my lord says.”
28. So Moses commanded them, Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of the Israelites.