Joshua 22:1–9

Eastern Tribes Return Home

22Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh ²and said to them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded,^l and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. ³For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you. ⁴Now that the Lord your God has given them rest^m as he promised, return to your homesⁿ in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.^{o 5}But be very careful to keep the commandment^p and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord^q your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands,^r to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.^s”

⁶Then Joshua blessed^t them and sent them away, and they went to their homes. ⁷(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan,^u and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side^v of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,^{w 8}saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock,^x with silver, gold, bronze and iron,^y and a great quantity of clothing—and divide^z the plunder^a from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

⁹So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh^b in Canaan to return to Gilead,^c their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.