Numbers 32:1

Reuben and Gad Settle in Gilead

1Now the people of Reuben and the people of Gad had a very great number of livestock. And they saw the land of aJazer and the land of Gilead, and behold, the place was a place for livestock.

Numbers 32:16-17

16Then they came near to him and said, b“We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock, and cities for our little ones, 17but cwe will take up arms, ready to go before the people of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. And our little ones shall live in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Numbers 32:33

33And dMoses gave to them, to the people of Gad and to the people of Reuben and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land and its cities with their territories, the cities of the land throughout the country.

Deuteronomy 3:16

16and to the Reubenites eand the Gadites I gave the territory from Gilead as far as the Valley of the Arnon, with the middle of the valley as a border, as far over as the river Jabbok, fthe border of the Ammonites;

Deuteronomy 3:18-20

18“And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God has given you this land to possess. gAll your men of valor shall cross over armed before your brothers, the people of Israel. 19Only your wives, your little ones, and your livestock h(I know that you have much livestock) shall remain in the cities that I have given you, 20 iuntil the Lord gives rest to your brothers, as to you, and they also occupy the land that the Lord your God gives them beyond the Jordan. Then each of you may return to his possession which I have given you.’
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