Joshua 22:1-9 (KJV)
Before Joshua crossed the Jordan with Israel into the Promised Land, Moses had given land to the Reubenites, Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh. As commanded by God, the condition for the tribes to keep their inheritance was for them to cross the Jordan armed to help conquer the land for their brethren. The tribes agreed to do as the Lord commanded.
Since all had come to pass that the Lord had spoken, Joshua permitted the Reubenites, Gadites and the Manasseh half-tribe to return to the land they had been given on the other side of Jordan. Joshua said to them, "But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul" (v. 5).
Joshua blessed the tribes and they departed for their land of inheritance.
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