13. The anger of the Lord was inflamed against Israel, and He made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation that did evil in the eyes of the Lord was finished.
14. “Behold, you have risen up in your fathers’ place, an increase of sinful men, to increase more the burning anger of the Lord toward Israel.
15. If you turn away from following Him, He will again abandon them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”
16. They approached him and said, “We will build sheepfolds here for our livestock and cities for our children.
17. But we ourselves will be armed, ready before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place. Our little ones will dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.
18. We will not return to our houses until all the children of Israel have inherited their inheritance.
19. We will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan or beyond, because our inheritance fell to us on this side of the Jordan to the east.”
20. Moses said to them, “If you will do this thing, if you will be armed before the Lord for war,
21. and all of you, each armed, will go over the Jordan before the Lord until He has driven out His enemies from before Him