Joshua 22:26-28

GOD’S WORD Translation

²⁶ Then we said, ‘Let’s build an altar for ourselves. It will not be for burnt offerings or sacrifices, ²⁷ but it will stand as a witness between us for generations to come. It will stand as a witness that we may worship in the presence of the Lord with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.’ Then your descendants cannot say to our descendants, ‘You have no connection with the Lord!’ ²⁸ So we thought, if this statement is made to us or to our descendants in the future, we will answer, ‘Look at the model of the Lord’s altar our ancestors made. They didn’t make it for burnt offerings or sacrifices but to stand as a witness between us.’