the land that the Lord subdued ¹  before the community of Israel, is ideal for cattle, and your servants have cattle.”

Then they came very close to him and said, “We will build sheep folds here for our flocks and cities for our families, ¹ 

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

¹ 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, ² 

Then the Israelites said to him, “We will go along the highway, and if we 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.”

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.