¹¹ The Israelites heard that the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh had built an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the region^[a] near the Jordan, across from the Israelites.^(A)

A Prescribed Place of Worship

¹³ “Take care that you do not offer your burnt offerings at any place you happen to see.

¹⁴ But only at the place that the Lord will choose in one of your tribes—there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do everything I command you.^(A)