Joshua 22:19-21

Living Bible

¹⁹ If you need the altar because your land is defiled, then join us on our side of the river where the Lord lives among us in his Tabernacle, and we will share our land with you. But do not rebel against the Lord by building another altar in addition to the only true altar of our God. ²⁰ Don’t you remember that when Achan, the son of Zerah, sinned against the Lord, the entire nation was punished in addition to the one man who had sinned?”

²¹ This was the reply of the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to these high officials: