However, your wives, your children and your livestock (I know you have much livestock) may stay in the towns I have given you,
Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
Then they came up to him and said, “We would like to build pens here for our livestock and cities for our women and children.
Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.
Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them