Also the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the hall tribe of Manasseh, passed over, armed, before the sons of Israel,—as Moses had spoken unto them:
Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses hath given you over the Jordan,—but, ye, shall pass over, armed, before your brethren,—all ye mighty men of valour, and shall help them;
Of the sons of Gad, in their pedigree—by their families by their ancestral houses, in the counting of names from twenty years old and upwards, every one able to go forth to war:
but, we, would arm ourselves promptly, before the sons of Israel, until that we have brought them into their place,—so should our little ones remain in the fortified cities, because of the inhabitants of the land.
So I commanded you, at that time saying,—Yahweh your God hath given unto you this land to possess it, armed, shall ye pass over before your brethren the sons of Israel all the sons of valour,
And hath provided a first part for himself, For, there, a commander’s portion hath been hid,—So he cometh with the heads of the people, The righteousness of Yahweh, he executeth, And his regulations, with Israel.
And so it was, as soon as all the people had made an end of passing over,—then passed over the ark of Yahweh, and the priests, in presence of the people.