God

Moshe and El'azar the cohen took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the tent of meeting as a reminder for the people of Isra'el before ADONAI.

the country that ADONAI conquered before the community of Isra'el, is livestock country; and your servants have livestock.

Besides, why are you trying to discourage the people of Isra'el from crossing into the land ADONAI gave them?

This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh-Barnea to see the land.

For when they went up to the Eshkol Valley and saw the land, they disheartened the people of Isra'el, so that they wouldn't enter the land ADONAI had given them.

ADONAI's anger blazed up on that day; and he swore,

'None of the people aged twenty or more who came out of Egypt will see the land I swore to Avraham, Yitz'chak and Ya'akov; because they haven't followed me unreservedly -

except Kalev the son of Y'funeh the K'nizi and Y'hoshua the son of Nun, because they have followed ADONAI unreservedly.'

Thus ADONAI's anger blazed against Isra'el, so that he made them wander here and there in the desert forty years, until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of ADONAI had died out.

Now you, another brood of sinners, have arisen in your fathers' place to increase still more the fierce anger of ADONAI toward Isra'el!

For if you turn away from him, he will leave them in the desert again, and thus you will cause the destruction of all these people!"

Moshe said to them, "If you will do this - if you will arm yourselves to go before ADONAI to the war,

and if every one of your soldiers will cross the Yarden before ADONAI, until he has driven out his enemies ahead of him,

and if the land has been conquered before ADONAI, and only after that do you return - then you will be clear before ADONAI and before Isra'el, and this land here will be yours to possess before ADONAI.

But if you will not do this, then you have sinned against ADONAI, and you must understand that your sin will find you out.

but your servants will cross over, every man armed for war, before ADONAI to do battle, as my lord says."

Moshe said to them, "If the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven cross over the Yarden with you, every man armed for battle, before ADONAI; and if the land is conquered before you, then you are to give them the land of Gil'ad as theirs to possess.

The descendants of Gad and of Re'uven answered, "We will do as ADONAI has said to your servants.

We will cross over into the land of Kena'an armed before ADONAI, and the land we will possess for inheritance will be on this side of the Yarden."

Moshe recorded each of the stages of their journey by order of ADONAI; here are the starting-points of each stage:

while the Egyptians were burying those among them whom ADONAI had killed, all their firstborn; ADONAI had also executed judgment on their gods.

At ADONAI's order Aharon the cohen went up on Mount Hor, and he died there on the first day of the fifth month of the fortieth year after the people of Isra'el had left the land of Egypt.

ADONAI spoke to Moshe in the plains of Mo'av by the Yarden, across from Yericho. He said

Drive out the inhabitants of the land, and live in it, for I have given the land to you to possess.

And in this event, I will do to you what I intended to do to them."