²⁴ Build for yourselves cities for your little children and sheep pens for your flocks; what has gone out from your mouth you will do.”

²⁵ So the descendants^[a] of Gad and the descendants^[b] of Reuben said to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do just as my lord commands. ²⁶ Our little children, our wives, our livestock, and all of our animals^[c] will remain^[d] in the cities of Gilead,