Divide the plunder into two parts, one for those who took part in the war – who went out to battle – and the other for all the community.

So Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.

Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from them, all of it in the form of ornaments.

Your fathers did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.

The Gadites rebuilt Dibon, Ataroth, Aroer,

The Reubenites rebuilt Heshbon, Elealeh, Kiriathaim,

The descendants of Machir son of Manasseh went to Gilead, took it, and dispossessed the Amorites who were in it.

So Moses gave Gilead to Machir, son of Manasseh, and he lived there.

Now Jair son of Manasseh went and captured their small towns and named them Havvoth Jair.

Then Nobah went and captured Kenath and its villages and called it Nobah after his own name.

Moses recorded their departures according to their journeys, by the commandment of the Lord; now these are their journeys according to their departures.

You must take one leader from every tribe to assist in allocating the land as an inheritance.

These are the ones whom the Lord commanded to divide up the inheritance among the Israelites in the land of Canaan.

The avenger of blood himself must kill the murderer; when he meets him, he must kill him.

But if the slayer at any time goes outside the boundary of the town to which he had fled,

As the Lord had commanded Moses, so the daughters of Zelophehad did.

So it was in the Transjordan, in Moab, that Moses began to deliver these words:

So I instructed you at that time regarding everything you should do.

I spoke to you, but you did not listen. Instead you rebelled against the Lord and recklessly went up to the hill country.

“You have circled around this mountain long enough; now turn north.