5. They said, “If we have found favor in your sight, let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Don’t make us cross the Jordan.”
6. But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Should your brothers go to war while you stay here?
7. Why are you discouraging the Israelites from crossing into the land the Lord has given them?
8. That’s what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to see the land.