Joshua 22:28-30

New American Standard Bible 1995

²⁸ Therefore we said, ‘It shall also come about if they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, then we shall say, “See the copy of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it is a witness between us and you.”’ ²⁹ Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following the Lord this day, by ^(A)building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His ^[a]tabernacle.”

³⁰ So when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the ^[b]families of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.