Introduction

The people of reuben and the people of gad had a very great number of live stock. And they said, if we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession. Do not take us across the jordan. But moses said to them, shall your brothers go to the war while you sit here? Why will you discourage the heart of the people of israel from going over into the land that the lord has given them? Your f thers did this when i sent them from kadesh barnia to see the land. For when they went up to the valley of eshcal and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of