Numbers 32:28–42

²⁸So 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.

²⁹Moses 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;

³⁰but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.”

³¹The 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.”

^33aSo 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 ¹territories, the cities of the surrounding land.

³⁴The sons of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and ^aAroer,

³⁵and Atroth-shophan and Jazer and Jogbehah,

³⁶and ^aBeth-nimrah and Beth-haran as fortified cities, and sheepfolds for sheep.

³⁷The sons of Reuben built Heshbon and Elealeh and Kiriathaim,

³⁸and ^aNebo and Baal-meon—their names being changed—and Sibmah, and they gave other names to the cities which they built.

³⁹The sons of ^aMachir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

⁴⁰So Moses gave ^aGilead to Machir the son of Manasseh, and he lived in it.

⁴¹Jair the son of Manasseh went and took its ¹towns, and called them ^2aHavvoth-jair.

⁴²Nobah went and took Kenath and its villages, and called it Nobah after ^ahis own name.