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27 but every soldier that we’ve equipped for battle will cross the Jordan River[a] in the presence of the Lord, as our master has spoken.”

28 So Moses instructed Eleazar the priest and Nun’s son Joshua, and the officers of the ancestral tribes of the Israelis, 29 telling them, “If the descendants of Gad and descendants of Reuben cross over the Jordan River with you, that is, all of their soldiers who’ve been equipped for battle in the Lord’s presence, so that the land is subjugated right before your eyes, then you are to give them the land of Gilead as their possession.

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 32:27 The Heb. lacks the Jordan River

27 But your servants, every man who is armed for battle, will cross over to fight(A) before the Lord, just as our lord says.”

28 Then Moses gave orders about them(B) to Eleazar the priest and Joshua son of Nun(C) and to the family heads of the Israelite tribes.(D) 29 He said to them, “If the Gadites and Reubenites, every man armed for battle, cross over the Jordan with you before the Lord, then when the land is subdued before you,(E) you must give them the land of Gilead as their possession.(F)

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