So Moses told them, “If you do all these things, this land will belong to you. But your soldiers must go before the Lord into battle.
Your soldiers must cross the Jordan River and be ready to fight for the Lord until he forces the enemy to leave.
Then Joshua said to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh,
Then Joshua called a meeting of all the people from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh.
So the people from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh left the other Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan. They went back home to Gilead. This was their own land, the land that Moses gave them, as the Lord had commanded.