Joshua:22

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drb @Joshua:22:1 @At the same time Josue called the Rubenites , and the Gadites , and the half tribe of Manasses , drb @Joshua:22:2 @And said to them : You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you : you have also obeyed me in all things , drb @Joshua:22:3 @Neither have you left your brethren this long time , until this present day , keeping the commandment of the Lord your God . drb @Joshua:22:4 @Therefore as the Lord your God hath given your brethren rest and peace , as he promised : return , and go to your dwellings , and to the land of your possession , which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan : drb @Joshua:22:5 @Yet so that you observe attentively , and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you : that you love the Lord your God , and walk in all his ways , and keep all his commandments , and cleave to him , and serve him with all your heart , and with all your soul . drb @Joshua:22:6 @And Josue blessed them , and sent them away , and they returned to their dwellings . drb @Joshua:22:7 @Now to half the tribe of Manasses , Moses had given a possession in Basan : and therefore to the half that remained , Josue gave a lot among the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west . And when he sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them , drb @Joshua:22:8 @He said to them : With much substance and riches , you return to your settlements , with silver and gold , brass and iron , and variety of raiment : divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren . drb @Joshua:22:9 @So the children of Ruben , and the children of Gad , and the half tribe of Manasses returned , and parted from the children of Israel in Silo , which is in Chanaan , to go into Galaad the land of their possession , which they had obtained according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses . drb @Joshua:22:10 @And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan , in the land of Chanaan , they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan . drb @Joshua:22:11 @And when the children of Israel had heard of it , and certain messengers had brought them an account that the children of Ruben , and of Cad , and the half tribe of Manasses had built an altar in the land of Chanaan , upon the banks of the Jordan , over against the children of Israel : drb @Joshua:22:12 @They all assembled in Silo , to go up and fight against them . drb @Joshua:22:13 @And in the mean time they sent to them into the land of Galaad , Phinees the son of Eleazar the priest , drb @Joshua:22:14 @And ten princes with him , one of every tribe . drb @Joshua:22:15 @Who came to the children of Ruben , and of Gad , and the half tribe of Manasses , into the land of Galaad , and said to them : drb @Joshua:22:16 @Thus saith all the people of the Lord : What meaneth this transgression ? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel , building a sacrilegious altar , and revolting from the worship of him ? drb @Joshua:22:17 @Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor , and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day ? and many of the people perished . drb @Joshua:22:18 @And you have forsaken the Lord to day , and to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel . drb @Joshua:22:19 @But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean , pass over to the land wherein is the tabernacle of the Lord , and dwell among us : only depart not from the Lord , and from our society , by building an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God . drb @Joshua:22:20 @Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of the Lord , and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel ? And he was but one man , and would to God he alone had perished in his wickedness . drb @Joshua:22:21 @And the children of Ruben , and of Gad , and of the half tribe of Manasses answered the princes of the embassage of Israel : drb @Joshua:22:22 @The Lord the most mighty God , the Lord the most mighty God , he knoweth , and Israel also shall understand : If with the design of transgression we have set up this altar , let him not save us , but punish us immediately : drb @Joshua:22:23 @And if we did it with that mind , that we might lay upon it holocausts , and sacrifice , and victims of peace offerings , let him require and judge : drb @Joshua:22:24 @And not rather with this thought and design , that we should say : To morrow your children will say to our children : What have you to do with the Lord the God of Israel ? drb @Joshua:22:25 @The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and you , O ye children of Ruben , and ye children of Gad : and therefore you have no part in the Lord . And by this occasion you children shall turn away our children from the fear of the Lord . We therefore thought , it best , drb @Joshua:22:26 @And said : Let us build us an altar , not for holocausts , nor to offer victims , drb @Joshua:22:27 @But for a testimony between us and you , and our posterity and yours , that we may serve the Lord , and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts , and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings : and that your children to morrow may not say to our children : You have no part in the Lord . drb @Joshua:22:28 @And if they will say so , they shall answer them : Behold the altar of the Lord , which our fathers made , not for holocausts , nor for sacrifice , but for a testimony between us and you . drb @Joshua:22:29 @God keep us from any such wickedness that we should revolt from the Lord , and leave off following his steps , by building an altar to offer holocausts , and sacrifices , and victims , beside the altar of the Lord our God , which is erected before his tabernacle . drb @Joshua:22:30 @And when Phinees the priest , and the princes of the embassage , who were with him , had heard this , they were satisfied : and they admitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben , and Gad , and of the half tribe of Manasses . drb @Joshua:22:31 @And Phinees the priest the son of Eleazar said to them : Now we know that the Lord is with us , because you are not guilty of this revolt , and you have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of the Lord . drb @Joshua:22:32 @And he returned with the princes from the children of Ruben and Gad , out of the land of Galaad , into the land of Chanaan , to the children of Israel , and brought them word again . drb @Joshua:22:33 @And the saying pleased all that heard it . And the children of Israel praised God , and they no longer said that they would go up against them , and fight , and destroy the land of their possession . drb @Joshua:22:34 @And the children of Ruben , and the children of Cad called the altar which they had built , Our testimony , that the Lord is God .

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