The Meaning of "????? ???????????"

One of the “proofs” bible critics invoke as evidence that the Torah was not written by Hashem through Moshe, is the common reference in the Torah to Jews camping in ????? ???????????.

The critics ask “if Moses (the idea that G-d might have written it isn’t even entertained) wrote the Torah and Moses died in the desert, Moses would not have referred to where he was standing as the “other side of the Jordan”; the “other side of the Jordan” to Moses would have been the Land of Cannan.

Now there is a fairly simple answer to this question, but it occurred to me this year that parshas Matos provides proof that the question never even starts because it is based on a mistranslation of Eiver HaYarden. Eiver HaYarden doesn’t mean “the other side of the Jordan,” it means “the side of the Jordan” or “the bank of the Jordan.”

Thus the tribes of Reuven, Gad and half of Menashe say to Moshe in Bamidbar 32:19 ” ???? ??? ??????? ?????? ??????? ??????????? ????????? ???? ????? ???????????? ???????? ??????? ??????????? ?????????”

“For we will not inherit with them from the Bank of the Jordan and onward because our inheritance will come to use on the Eastern Bank of the Jordan.”

As Rashi explains, first reference to the Bank of the Jordan is referring to the West Bank, and the second reference is referring to the East Bank.