Numbers 32:27-29

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁷ but your servants will cross over, everyone armed for war, to do battle for the Lord, just as my lord orders.’

²⁸ So Moses gave command concerning them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the ancestral houses of the Israelite tribes. ²⁹ And Moses said to them, ‘If the Gadites and the Reubenites, everyone armed for battle before the Lord, will cross over the Jordan with you and the land shall be subdued before you, then you shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession;