6. But Moses said to the descendants of Gad and to the descendants of Reuben, “Will your brothers go to war while you yourselves live here?
7. Why are you discouraging the hearts of the Israelites from crossing into the land that Yahweh gave to them?
8. This is what your fathers did when I sent them from Kadesh Barnea to see the land.
9. When they went up to the valley of Eshcol and saw the land, they discouraged the heart of the Israelites so that they did not come to the land that Yahweh gave to them.