Joshua 22:1-4

Joshua Sends Home the Eastern Tribes

22:1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh 22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you. ¹  22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites ²  this entire time, ³  right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God. ⁴  22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ⁵  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ⁶  in your own land ⁷  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

Numbers 32:20-28

32:20 Then Moses replied, ⁸  “If you will do this thing, and if you will arm yourselves for battle before the Lord, 32:21 and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the Lord until he drives out his enemies from his presence 32:22 and the land is subdued before the Lord, then afterward you may return and be free of your obligation to the Lord and to Israel. This land will then be your possession in the Lord’s sight.

32:23 “But if you do not do this, then look, you will have sinned ⁹  against the Lord. And know that your sin will find you out. 32:24 So build cities for your descendants and pens for your sheep, but do what you have said ¹⁰  you would do.”

32:25 So the Gadites and the Reubenites replied to Moses, “Your servants will do as my lord commands. 32:26 Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead, 32:27 but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, to do battle in the Lord’s presence, just as my lord says.”

32:28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest, to Joshua son of Nun, and to the heads of the families of the Israelite tribes.

Deuteronomy 3:18

Instructions to the Transjordanian Tribes

3:18 At that time I instructed you as follows: “The Lord your God has given you this land for your possession. You warriors are to cross over before your fellow Israelites ¹¹  equipped for battle.

[22:2]  ¹ tn Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you.”

[22:3]  ² tn Heb “your brothers” (also in vv. 4, 7), but this does not refer to siblings or necessarily even to relatives. It refers to the Israelites of the remaining tribes.

[22:3]  ³ tn Heb “these many days.”

[22:3]  ⁴ tn Heb “you have kept the charge of the command of the Lord your God.”

[22:4]  ⁵ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

[22:4]  ⁶ tn Heb “tents.”

[22:4]  ⁷ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

[32:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “said to them.”

[32:23]  ⁹ tn The nuance of the perfect tense here has to be the future perfect.

[32:24]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “that which goes out/has gone out of your mouth.”

[3:18]  ¹¹ tn Heb “your brothers, the sons of Israel.”