Joshua 22:19-21

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ But now, if your land is unclean, pass over into the Lord’s land where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take for yourselves a possession among us; only do not rebel against the Lord, or make us as rebels by building yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God. ²⁰ Did not Achan the son of Zerah break faith in the matter of the devoted things, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone for his iniquity.’”

²¹ Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas′seh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel,