Bamidbar 32:18

18 We will not return unto bateinu, until the Bnei Yisroel have inherited every ish his nachalah.

Bamidbar 32:18 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:18

We will not return unto our houses
In the cities built or repaired by them, or to their families, and their substance, their flocks and their herds; all which they should leave behind them, and never think of returning to them:

until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance;
until all the tribes were settled in their respective places, and every family and everyone in them had their portion assigned them; and accordingly they did not return until the land was wholly subdued, nor even until every lot came up, and the land was divided by it, and the inheritance of the several tribes fixed, and even the cities of the Levites assigned to them out of the several tribes; see ( Joshua 22:1-34 ) .

Bamidbar 32:18 In-Context

16 And they came near unto him, and said, We will build gidrot tzon here for our mikneh, and towns for our little ones;

17 But we ourselves will go ready armed ahead of the Bnei Yisroel, until we have brought them unto their makom; and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of HaAretz.

18 We will not return unto bateinu, until the Bnei Yisroel have inherited every ish his nachalah.

19 For we will not inherit with them across the Yarden, or beyond; because our nachalah is fallen to us on this side of the Yarden eastward.

20 And Moshe said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before Hashem to milchamah,