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JOS-22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasseh,
JOS-22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in
all that I commanded you:
JOS-22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto
this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the
LORD your God.
JOS-22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your
brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get
you unto your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side
Jordan.
JOS-22:5 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.
JOS-22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they
went unto their tents.
JOS-22:7 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses
had given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half
thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan
westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents,
then he blessed them,
JOS-22:8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches
unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and
with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
JOS-22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the
children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of
Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their
possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
JOS-22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that
[are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an
altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
JOS-22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of
Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in
the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
JOS-22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the
whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves
together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
JOS-22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest,
JOS-22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head
of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
JOS-22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the
land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
JOS-22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What
trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of
Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that
ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day
against the LORD?
JOS-22:17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from
which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a
plague in the congregation of the LORD,
JOS-22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the
LORD? and it will be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD,
that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of
Israel.
JOS-22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be]
unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of
the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take
possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel
against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the
LORD our God.
JOS-22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in
the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of
Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
JOS-22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads
of the thousands of Israel,
JOS-22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,
and Israel he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in
transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
JOS-22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following
the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering,
or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
require [it];
JOS-22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this]
thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto
our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of
Israel?
JOS-22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and
you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part
in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from
fearing the LORD.
JOS-22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an
altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
JOS-22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you,
and our generations after us, that we might do the service of
the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may
not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the
LORD.
JOS-22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should
[so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we
may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD,
which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for
sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.
JOS-22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and
turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for
burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside
the altar of the LORD our God that [is] before his tabernacle.
JOS-22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were]
with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased
them.
JOS-22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto
the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is]
among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against
the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of
the hand of the LORD.
JOS-22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the
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