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Or HaChaim on Numbers 32:29/אור החיים על במדבר ל״ב:כ״ט

אוַיֹּאמֶר מֹשֶׁה וְגוֹ׳ וּנְתַתֶּם לָהֶם. אָמַר ״וּנְתַתֶּם לָהֶם״ שֶׁנִּרְאֶה כִּי הֵם הַנּוֹתְנִים, וּבְסָמוּךְ אָמַר הַכָּתוּב ״וַיִּתֵּן לָהֶם מֹשֶׁה וְגוֹ׳ אֶת מַמְלֶכֶת״ וְגוֹ׳ (במדבר לב:לג), לְפִי שֶׁאֵין הֶחְלֵט הַנְּתִינָה אֶלָּא אַחַר קִיּוּם הַתְּנַאי, לָזֶה אָמַר וּנְתַתֶּם. וְנִשְׁאַר לָדַעַת לָמָּה אָמַר וּנְתַתֶּם שֶׁהָיָה לוֹ לוֹמַר ״תִּתְּנוּ לָהֶם״. וְאוּלַי שֶׁרָמַז לָהֶם הַדְּבָרִים עַצְמָן שֶׁאָמַר לִבְנֵי גָד וּבְנֵי רְאוּבֵן, שֶׁאִם יֵלְכוּ – יַצְלִיחוּ כָּל יִשְׂרָאֵל, בֵּין הַנּוֹחֲלִים בָּאָרֶץ בֵּין הַנּוֹחֲלִים בְּעֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן, וְהוּא אָמְרוֹ אִם יַעַבְרוּ וְגוֹ׳ וְנִכְבְּשָׁה וְגוֹ׳ הַצְלָחַת נוֹחֲלֵי הָאָרֶץ, וּנְתַתֶּם וְגוֹ׳ הַצְלָחַת נוֹחֲלֵי עֵבֶר הַיַּרְדֵּן. וְרֶמֶז זֶה לֹא הָיָה נִשְׁמָע אִם הָיָה אוֹמֵר ״תִּתְּנוּ לָהֶם״.
1 ויאמר משה…ונתתם להם, Moses said:…"and then you will give to them, etc." The reason Moses had to say: "and you will give to them," was that it should be perceived that it was the other tribes who had given these lands to the tribes of Gad and Reuven although we will be reading in verse 33 that "Moses gave to the tribes of Gad, Reuven and half the tribe of Menashe the kingdom of Sichon and the kingdom of Og, etc." What Moses handed over became an absolute possession only after the tribes involved had completed their undertaking. We need to examine why Moses said: ונתתם להם instead of: תתנו להם, the more acceptable form of the future tense. Perhaps Moses wanted to indicate by the use of a form involving the letter ו at the beginning that the very whole-hearted participation in the conquest by these two tribes was what would make the campaign successful so that the ten tribes themselves owed their inheritance to that participation of the tribes Gad and Reuven. Had Moses written תתנו להם, we would not have surmised his meaning from that word.