^22:1Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh ^22:2and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.¹^22:3You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites² this entire time,³ right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.⁴^22:4Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure,⁵ just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes⁶ in your own land⁷ which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. ^22:5But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love⁸ the Lord your God, follow all his instructions,⁹ obey¹⁰ his commands, be loyal to him,¹¹ and serve him with all your heart and being!”¹²

^22:6Joshua rewarded¹³ them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.¹⁴^22:7(Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home,¹⁵ he rewarded¹⁶ them, ^22:8saying, “Take home¹⁷ great wealth, a lot of cattle,¹⁸ silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of¹⁹ clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers.” ^22:9So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead,²⁰ which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses.

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Footnotes

1 Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”
2 Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.
3 Heb “these many days.”
4 Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”
5 Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”
6 Heb “tents.”
7 Heb “the land of your possession.”
8 Heb “But be very careful to do the commandment and the law which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, to love.”
9 Heb “walk in all his paths.”
10 Or “keep.”
11 Heb “hug him.”
12 Or “soul.”
13 Heb “blessed.” However, see v. 8, where rewards are given.
14 Heb “and they went to their tents.”
15 Heb “to their tents.”
16 Heb “blessed.”
17 Heb “return to your tents with.”
18 Heb “very many cattle.”
19 Heb “very much clothing.”
20 Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession.”