Numbers 32:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁵ They continued, ‘If we have found favour in your sight, let this land be given to your servants for a possession; do not make us cross the Jordan.’

⁶ But Moses said to the Gadites and to the Reubenites, ‘Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here? ⁷ Why will you discourage the hearts of the Israelites from going over into the land that the Lord has given them?