Joshua 22:8-10

EasyEnglish Bible

⁸ He said, ‘Go back to your homes with the valuable things that you took from your enemies. Take many animals with you. Take silver, gold, bronze and iron things, as well as beautiful clothes. Share these things with the other people of your tribes.’

⁹ So the tribes of Reuben, Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelites in Shiloh, in the land of Canaan. They returned to their own land in Gilead. Moses had given this land to them, as the Lord had told him.

An altar causes trouble

¹⁰ The 2½ tribes came to Geliloth, near the Jordan River, in Canaan. They built a big altar there, beside the river.