and said to [a]them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very many livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; (A)divide the spoils of your enemies with your brothers.” So the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, [b]leaving the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the (B)land of Gilead, to the land of their possession in which they had settled, in accordance with the [c]command of the Lord [d]through Moses.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:8 Lit them, saying,
  2. Joshua 22:9 Lit and went from
  3. Joshua 22:9 Lit mouth
  4. Joshua 22:9 Lit by the hand of

saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock,(A) with silver, gold, bronze and iron,(B) and a great quantity of clothing—and divide(C) the plunder(D) from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh(E) in Canaan to return to Gilead,(F) their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.

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