Numbers 32:30-32

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

³⁰ but if they will not cross over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.’ ³¹ The Gadites and the Reubenites answered, ‘As the Lord has spoken to your servants, so we will do. ³² We will cross over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but the possession of our inheritance shall remain with us on this side of^[a] the Jordan.’