“And I commanded you at that time, saying, The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war.”
And I commanded you at that time, saying, 'The LORD your God has given you this land to possess it; you shall pass over armed before your brethren, the children of Israel, all the men of valor' -- the command to the eastern tribes (Reuben, Gad, half-Manasseh) requires military participation in the conquest of Canaan proper. Though they receive their inheritance east of the Jordan, they must fight with the western tribes. This clause prevents eastern settlement from becoming isolationist.
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