Numbers 32:28–42

²⁸Moses therefore commanded Eleazar the priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the princes of the families of all the tribes of Israel, and said to them:

²⁹If the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben pass with you over the Jordan, all armed for war before the Lord, and the land be made subject to you: give them Galaad in possession.

³⁰But if they will not pass armed with you into the land of Chanaan, let them receive places to dwell in among you.

³¹And the children of Gad, and the children of Ruben answered: As the Lord hath spoken to his servants, so will we do:

³²We will go armed before the Lord into the land of Chanaan, and we confess that we have already received our possession beyond the Jordan.

³³Moses therefore gave to the children of Gad and of Ruben, and to the half tribe of Manasses the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sehon king of the Amorrhites, and the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and their land and the cities thereof round about.

³⁴And the sons of Gad built Dibon, and Ataroth, and Aroer,

³⁵And Etroth, and Sophan, and Jazer, and Jegbaa,

³⁶And Bethnemra, and Betharan, fenced cities, and folds for their cattle.

³⁷But the children of Ruben built Hesebon, and Eleale, and Cariathaim,

³⁸And Nabo, and Baalmeon (their names being changed) and Sabama: giving names to the cities which they had built.

³⁹Moreover the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, went into Galaad, and wasted it, cutting off the Amorrhites, the inhabitants thereof.

⁴⁰And Moses gave the land of Galaad to Machir the son of Manasses, and he dwelt in it.

⁴¹And Jair the son of Manasses went, and took the villages thereof, and he called them Havoth Jair, that is to say, the villages of Jair.

⁴²Nobe also went, and took Canath with the villages thereof: and he called it by his own name, Nobe.