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Then Joshua called the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh
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and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the slave of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
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Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
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And now the LORD your God has given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them; therefore now return and go to your tents
and unto the land of your possessions which Moses the slave of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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Only that with diligence ye keep yourselves doing the commandment and the law, which Moses, the slave of the LORD, charged you: to love the LORD your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
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So Joshua, blessing them, sent them; and they went unto their tents.
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Now to the
one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given
possession in Bashan; but unto the
other half Joshua gave
inheritance among their brethren on this side of the Jordan to the west. And Joshua also sent these to their tents, after having blessed them,
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And he spoke unto them, saying, Return with great riches unto your tents and with a great amount of cattle with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
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And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, departing from the sons of Israel out of Shiloh, which
is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, of which they were the possessors, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
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And when they came unto the borders of the Jordan, which
is in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar there next to the Jordan, a great altar to look upon.
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And the sons of Israel heard it said, Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of the Jordan, at the passage of the sons of Israel.