<p class="bodytext">They assigned to the Gershonite clans of the Levites the following cities:<n id="1" /> from the half-tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan (a city of refuge for one who committed manslaughter) and Beeshtarah, along with the grazing areas of each &#8211; a total of two cities;

<t /><p class="bodytext">The Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there, near the Jordan, an impressive altar.<n id="1" />

The Israelites received this report:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to<n id="2" /> the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead,<n id="1" /> which they acquired by the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s command through Moses.p>