The Gadites and Reubenites answered, “We are your servants, and we will do as the Lord said.
But if they do not go over armed, they will not receive it; their land will be in Canaan with you.”
We will cross over into Canaan and go before the Lord ready for battle. But our land will be east of the Jordan River.”
“Let the people of Reuben live and not die, but let the people be few.”
Then the people answered Joshua, “Anything you command us to do, we will do. Any place you send us, we will go.