28 Therefore said we, If so be that they should so say to us, or to our [a]generations in time to come, then will we answer, Behold the fashion of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, but it is a witness between us and you.

29 God forbid, that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn this day away from the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offering, or for meat offering, or for sacrifice, save the altar of the Lord our God that is before his Tabernacle.

30 ¶ And when Phinehas the Priest, and the princes of the Congregation and heads over the thousands of Israel, which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, and children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, [b]they were well content.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:28 They signify a wonderful care that they bare toward their posterity, that they might live in the true service of God.
  2. Joshua 22:30 Hebrew, it was good in their eyes.

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