3 ‘Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo and Beon –
4 the land the Lord subdued before the people of Israel – are suitable for livestock, and your servants have livestock.
5 If we have found favour in your eyes,’ they said, ‘let this land be given to your servants as our possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.’
6 Moses said to the Gadites and Reubenites, ‘Should your fellow Israelites go to war while you sit here?
7 Why do you discourage the Israelites from crossing over into the land the Lord has given them?
8 This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to look over the land.
9 After they went up to the Valley of Eshkol and viewed the land, they discouraged the Israelites from entering the land the Lord had given them.