the land that the <sc>Lordsc> subdued<n id="1" /> before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then they came very close to him and said, &#8220;We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families,<n id="1" />

Our children, our wives, our flocks, and all our livestock will be there in the cities of Gilead,

<t /><n id="1" /><p class="bodytext">Now the Reubenites and the Gadites possessed a very large number of cattle. When they saw that the lands of Jazer and Gilead were ideal for cattle,<n id="2" />

Then the Israelites said to him, &#8220;We will go along the highway, and if we<n id="1" /> or our cattle drink any of your water, we will pay for it. We will only pass through on our feet, without doing anything else.&#8221;p>

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites took the women of Midian captives along with their little ones, and took all their herds, all their flocks, and all their goods as plunder.