31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the people of Manasseh, “Today we know that (A)the Lord is in our midst, because you have not committed this breach of faith against the Lord. Now you have delivered the people of Israel from the hand of the Lord.”

32 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs, returned from the people of Reuben and the people of Gad (B)in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them. 33 And the report (C)was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. And the people of Israel (D)blessed God and spoke no more of making war against them to destroy the land where the people of Reuben and the people of Gad were settled.

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