And now that the LORD your God has given your brothers rest as He promised them, you may return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you across the Jordan.
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- WEB Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- KJV And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
- NKJV And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; now therefore, return and go to your tents and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
- NASB And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; therefore turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan.
- NLT And now the Lord your God has given the other tribes rest, as he promised them. So go back home to the land that Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave you as your possession on the east side of the Jordan River.
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Quick answer
Now that God has given rest, Joshua sends them home to their inheritance beyond the Jordan. It marks the fulfillment of their reward.
Overview
With the conquest accomplished and rest granted, the eastern tribes are released to return to the land Moses had given them. Their faithful service is followed by the enjoyment of their promised inheritance. The pattern of labor leading to rest points forward to the believer's rest secured in Christ.
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- Num 32:18We will not return to our homes until every Israelite has taken possession of his inheritance.
- Josh 13:8The other half of Manasseh, along with the Reubenites and Gadites, had received the inheritance Moses had given them beyond the Jordan to the east, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had assigned to them:
- Deut 3:20until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as He has to you, and they too have taken possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them across the Jordan. Then each of you may return to the possession I have given you.”
- Deut 3:1–17Then we turned and went up the road to Bashan, and Og king of Bashan and his whole army came out to meet us in battle at Edrei.
- Deut 29:8We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
- Josh 13:15This is what Moses had given to the clans of the tribe of Reuben:
- Deut 12:9For you have not yet come to the resting place and the inheritance that the LORD your God is giving you.
- Num 32:33–42So Moses gave to the Gadites, to the Reubenites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan—the land including its cities and the territory surrounding them.
- Josh 21:43–44Thus the LORD gave Israel all the land He had sworn to give their fathers, and they took possession of it and settled in it.
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