The tribes of Gad and Reuben promised Moses, “Sir, we your servants will do just as you have ordered.
Go ahead and build towns for your children and stone walls for your flocks, but make sure you do what you've promised!”
Our wives and children, our livestock and all our animals, will all remain here in the towns of Gilead.
They said to Joshua, “We will do everything you have ordered us to do, and we will go wherever you send us.