Numbers 32:30

30 But if they don't cross over with you, they'll have to settle up with you in Canaan."

Numbers 32:30 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:30

But if they will not pass over with you armed
Shall change their minds, and break their promise, and refuse to go over the river Jordan with the other tribes, and armed ready to engage in battle with the enemy:

they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan;
take their lot there, but have no inheritance or possessions on this side Jordan.

Numbers 32:30 In-Context

28 So Moses issued orders for them to Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the ancestral tribes of the People of Israel.

29 Moses said, "If the families of Gad and Reuben cross the Jordan River with you and before God, all armed and ready to fight, then after the land is secure, you may give them the land of Gilead as their inheritance.

30 But if they don't cross over with you, they'll have to settle up with you in Canaan."

31 The families of Gad and Reuben responded: "We will do what God has said.

32 We will cross the Jordan before God, ready and willing to fight. But the land we inherit will be here, to the east of the Jordan."