Bible Verses About The Tribe Of Gad

On the sixth day was Elyasaf the son of De'u'el, leader of the descendants of Gad.

He offered one silver dish weighing 130 shekels [three-and-a-quarter pounds] and one silver basin of seventy shekels (using the sanctuary shekel) [one-and-three-quarters pounds], both full of fine flour mixed with olive oil for a grain offering;

one gold pan of ten shekels [one-quarter pound], full of incense;

one young bull, one ram, one male lamb in its first year as a burnt offering,

one male goat as a sin offering,

and, for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five male goats and five male lambs in their first year. This was the offering of Elyasaf the son of De'u'el.

Next, the banner of the camp of Re'uven moved forward by companies; over his company was Elitzur the son of Sh'de'ur.

Over the company of the tribe of the descendants of Shim'on was Shlumi'el the son of Tzurishaddai.

Over the company of the descendants of Gad was Elyasaf the son of De'u'el.

The descendants of Gad, by their families, were: of Tz'fon, the family of the Tz'foni; of Haggi, the family of the Haggi; of Shuni, the family of the Shuni;

of Ozni, the family of the Ozni; of 'Eri, the family of the 'Eri;

of Arod, the family of the Arodi; and of Ar'eli, the family of the Ar'eli.

The descendants of Re'uven and the descendants of Gad had vast quantities of livestock. When they saw that the land of Ya'zer and the land of Gil'ad were good for livestock,

the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven came and spoke to Moshe, El'azar the cohen and the community leaders. They said,

"'Atarot, Divon, Ya'zer, Nimrah, Heshbon, El'aleh, S'vam, N'vo and Be'on,

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

If you regard us favorably," they went on, "let this land be given to your servants as their possession; and don't have us cross the Yarden."

Moshe answered the descendants of Gad and of Re'uven: "Are your brothers to go to war while you stay here?

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.