5 If we have found favor with you, please let us have this land as our property instead of giving us land across the Jordan River.”
6 “Do you intend to stay here while your brothers go across and do all the fighting?” Moses asked the men of Gad and Reuben.
7 “Why do you want to discourage the rest of the people of Israel from going across to the land the lord has given them?
8 Your ancestors did the same thing when I sent them from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land.
9 After they went up to the valley of Eshcol and explored the land, they discouraged the people of Israel from entering the land the lord was giving them.
10 Then the lord was very angry with them, and he vowed,
11 ‘Of all those I rescued from Egypt, no one who is twenty years old or older will ever see the land I swore to give to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, for they have not obeyed me wholeheartedly.