⁹ So the descendants^[a] of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed with the Israelites^[b] at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead to the land of their possession, which they had acquired according to the command of Yahweh^[c] through the hand of Moses.

¹⁰ And they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, and the descendants^[d] of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar on the Jordan, a large and imposing altar.^{[e] 11} And the Israelites^[f] heard it said that the descendants^[g] of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar next to the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the Israelites.^[h]