Joshua 22:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ If your own property is unclean land, then cross over into the land of the Lord’s property and settle among us. That’s where the dwelling of the Lord stands. But don’t rebel against the Lord. And don’t involve us in rebellion^[a] by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Didn’t Achan, Zerah’s son, do such a disrespectful thing with the items reserved for God? Wrath came on the entire community of Israel. And he wasn’t the only one to die for his crime.’”

²¹ Then the people of Reuben, the people of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered the heads of the military units of Israel: