24. Build yourselves cities for your little ones, and sheepfolds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."
25. The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, "Your servants will do just as my lord commands.
26. Our little ones, our wives, our livestock and all our cattle shall remain there in the cities of Gilead;
27. while your servants, everyone who is armed for war, will cross over in the presence of the Lord to battle, just as my lord says."
28. So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers' households of the tribes of the sons of Israel.
29. Moses said to them, "If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben, everyone who is armed for battle, will cross with you over the Jordan in the presence of the Lord, and the land is subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;
30. but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan."
31. The sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben answered, saying, "As the Lord has said to your servants, so we will do.
32. We ourselves will cross over armed in the presence of the Lord into the land of Canaan, and the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us across the Jordan."
33. So Moses gave to them, to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Joseph's son Manasseh, the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og, the king of Bashan, the land with its cities with their territories, the cities of the surrounding land.
34. The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer,
35. and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,
36. and Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.
37. The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,
38. and Nebo and Baal-meon-their names being changed-and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.
39. The sons of Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.
40. So Moses gave Gilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.
41. Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its towns, and called them Havvoth-jair.