Joshua 22:1–9

Tribes beyond Jordan Return

^1aThen Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

²and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, ^aand have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

³“You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.

⁴“And now ^athe Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; therefore turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan.

⁵“Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to ^alove the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him ^bwith all your heart and with all your soul.”

⁶So Joshua ^ablessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

⁷Now ^ato the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but ^bto the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers westward beyond the Jordan. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

⁸and said to ¹them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; ^adivide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

⁹The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the sons of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the ^aland of Gilead, to the land of their possession which they had possessed, according to the ¹command of the Lord ²through Moses.