To this the Gadites and Reubenites replied, “We will do what the Lord has ordered your servants.
But if they will not go across in force with you before the Lord, you will bring their wives and children and livestock across before you into Canaan, and they will possess a holding among you in the land of Canaan.”
We ourselves will go across in force before the Lord into the land of Canaan, but we will retain our hereditary property on this side of the Jordan.”
May Reuben live and not die out, but let his numbers be few.
They answered Joshua, “We will do all you have commanded us, and we will go wherever you send us.