<div dir="ltr"><p>The problem with the two tribes staying back was not that they were not going to participate in the battle. Shevet Levi didn't participate either. The problem with that was, as Moshe says explicitly, that they were like the Meraglim who discouraged entering into the land at all. Providing the comfy option of staying *out* of EY where others might easily prefer that over toughing out the war of conquest was the problem. So it isn't the people *in* EY who don't fight who parallel Reuven and Gad. They parallel Shevet Levi. It is the people who live comfy lives in Chutz LaAretz who discourage toughing it out in EY who have the 'splainin to do.</p>
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