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Parallel Verses
  • New King James Version - “If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying,
  • 新标点和合本 - “在耶和华你 神所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说:‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神’;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - “若你听见人说,在耶和华—你上帝所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座,
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - “若你听见人说,在耶和华—你 神所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座,
  • 当代译本 - “在你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们居住的各城中,如果你们听说某城里有恶人引诱城中的居民偏离正路,唆使他们去供奉你们不认识的其他神明,
  • 圣经新译本 - “在耶和华你的 神赐给你居住的一座城中,如果你听说
  • 中文标准译本 - 如果在你的神耶和华赐给你居住的某城,你听说
  • 现代标点和合本 - “在耶和华你神所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神’,
  • 和合本(拼音版) - “在耶和华你上帝所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说:‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神。’
  • New International Version - If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in
  • New International Reader's Version - The Lord your God is giving you towns to live in. But suppose you hear something bad about one of those towns.
  • English Standard Version - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there,
  • New Living Translation - “When you begin living in the towns the Lord your God is giving you, you may hear
  • The Message - When word comes in from one of your cities that God, your God, is giving you to live in, reporting that evil men have gotten together with some of the citizens of the city and have broken away, saying, “Let’s go and worship other gods” (gods you know nothing about), then you must conduct a careful examination. Ask questions, investigate. If it turns out that the report is true and this abomination did in fact take place in your community, you must execute the citizens of that town. Kill them, setting that city apart for holy destruction: the city and everything in it including its animals. Gather the plunder in the middle of the town square and burn it all—town and plunder together up in smoke, a holy sacrifice to God, your God. Leave it there, ashes and ruins. Don’t build on that site again. And don’t let any of the plunder devoted to holy destruction stick to your fingers. Get rid of it so that God may turn from anger to compassion, generously making you prosper, just as he promised your ancestors.
  • Christian Standard Bible - “If you hear it said about one of your cities the Lord your God is giving you to live in,
  • New American Standard Bible - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that
  • Amplified Bible - “If you hear [it said] in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to live in,
  • American Standard Version - If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,
  • King James Version - If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
  • New English Translation - Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that
  • World English Bible - If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
  • 新標點和合本 - 「在耶和華-你神所賜你居住的各城中,你若聽人說,有些匪類從你們中間的一座城出來勾引本城的居民,說:『我們不如去事奉你們素來所不認識的別神』;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 「若你聽見人說,在耶和華-你上帝所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座,
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 「若你聽見人說,在耶和華—你 神所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座,
  • 當代譯本 - 「在你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們居住的各城中,如果你們聽說某城裡有惡人引誘城中的居民偏離正路,唆使他們去供奉你們不認識的其他神明,
  • 聖經新譯本 - “在耶和華你的 神賜給你居住的一座城中,如果你聽說
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『在永恆主你的上帝所賜給你居住的一個城中、你若聽說
  • 中文標準譯本 - 如果在你的神耶和華賜給你居住的某城,你聽說
  • 現代標點和合本 - 「在耶和華你神所賜你居住的各城中,你若聽人說,有些匪類從你們中間的一座城出來勾引本城的居民,說『我們不如去侍奉你們素來所不認識的別神』,
  • 文理和合譯本 - 爾上帝耶和華賜爾諸邑、俾爾居之、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 爾上帝耶和華、錫爾眾邑、俾爾居處、浸假一邑之中有匪類、誘其居民、事素所未識之上帝、爾聞之、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主爾之天主所賜爾居之諸邑、爾若聞一邑中有匪類出、誘其邑之民曰、我儕莫若往事異邦之神、即爾素所未識之神、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - »Si de alguna de las ciudades que el Señor tu Dios te da para que las habites llega el rumor de
  • 현대인의 성경 - “여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분에게 주신 성에서 여러분이 살게 될 때
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Господь, твой Бог, дает тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tout Israël l’apprendra et sera saisi de crainte, et l’on ne recommencera pas à commettre un tel méfait au milieu de vous.
  • リビングバイブル - イスラエルの町のどこかで、ほかの神々を拝むようにそそのかす者がいると聞いたら、まず、うわさが本当かどうか確かめなさい。事実そのとおりで、そんな恐ろしいことが主の下さった町で起こっていることがはっきりしたら、
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Se vocês ouvirem dizer que numa das cidades que o Senhor, o seu Deus, dá a vocês para nelas morarem,
  • Hoffnung für alle - Ganz Israel soll davon erfahren, damit alle gewarnt sind und so etwas Abscheuliches nicht wieder vorkommt.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nếu có tin đồn về một thành trong các thành mà Chúa Hằng Hữu Đức Chúa Trời ban cho anh em,
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากท่านได้ยินคนกล่าวถึงเมืองใดที่พระยาห์เวห์พระเจ้าของท่านประทานให้ท่านเป็นที่พักอาศัย
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ถ้า​ท่าน​ได้ยิน​ว่า​เมือง​ใด​เมือง​หนึ่ง​ที่​พระ​ผู้​เป็น​เจ้า พระ​เจ้า​ของ​ท่าน​ให้​ท่าน​อาศัย​อยู่
Cross Reference
  • Judges 20:1 - So all the children of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.
  • Judges 20:2 - And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.
  • Judges 20:3 - (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?”
  • Judges 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “My concubine and I went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.
  • Judges 20:5 - And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me, but instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.
  • Judges 20:6 - So I took hold of my concubine, cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel, because they committed lewdness and outrage in Israel.
  • Judges 20:7 - Look! All of you are children of Israel; give your advice and counsel here and now!”
  • Judges 20:8 - So all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, nor will any turn back to his house;
  • Judges 20:9 - but now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: We will go up against it by lot.
  • Judges 20:10 - We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”
  • Judges 20:11 - So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united together as one man.
  • Judges 20:12 - Then the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?
  • Judges 20:13 - Now therefore, deliver up the men, the perverted men who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove the evil from Israel!” But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.
  • Judges 20:14 - Instead, the children of Benjamin gathered together from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.
  • Judges 20:15 - And from their cities at that time the children of Benjamin numbered twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred select men.
  • Judges 20:16 - Among all this people were seven hundred select men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair’s breadth and not miss.
  • Judges 20:17 - Now besides Benjamin, the men of Israel numbered four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.
  • Joshua 22:11 - Now the children of Israel heard someone say, “Behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan—on the children of Israel’s side.”
  • Joshua 22:12 - And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go to war against them.
  • Joshua 22:13 - Then the children of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,
  • Joshua 22:14 - and with him ten rulers, one ruler each from the chief house of every tribe of Israel; and each one was the head of the house of his father among the divisions of Israel.
  • Joshua 22:15 - Then they came to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
  • Joshua 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord: ‘What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the Lord?
  • Joshua 22:17 - Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
  • Joshua 22:18 - but that you must turn away this day from following the Lord? And it shall be, if you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
  • Joshua 22:19 - Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the Lord, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God.
  • Joshua 22:20 - Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”
  • Joshua 22:21 - Then the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the divisions of Israel:
  • Joshua 22:22 - “The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, He knows, and let Israel itself know—if it is in rebellion, or if in treachery against the Lord, do not save us this day.
  • Joshua 22:23 - If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer on it burnt offerings or grain offerings, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the Lord Himself require an account.
  • Joshua 22:24 - But in fact we have done it for fear, for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your descendants may speak to our descendants, saying, “What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel?
  • Joshua 22:25 - For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no part in the Lord.” So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the Lord.’
  • Joshua 22:26 - Therefore we said, ‘Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,
  • Joshua 22:27 - but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, “You have no part in the Lord.” ’
  • Joshua 22:28 - Therefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, ‘Here is the replica of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.’
  • Joshua 22:29 - Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”
  • Joshua 22:30 - Now when Phinehas the priest and the rulers of the congregation, the heads of the divisions of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
  • Joshua 22:31 - Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh, “This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.”
  • Joshua 22:32 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought back word to them.
  • Joshua 22:33 - So the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God; they spoke no more of going against them in battle, to destroy the land where the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
  • Joshua 22:34 - The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar, Witness, “For it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • New King James Version - “If you hear someone in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to dwell in, saying,
  • 新标点和合本 - “在耶和华你 神所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说:‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神’;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - “若你听见人说,在耶和华—你上帝所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座,
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - “若你听见人说,在耶和华—你 神所赐给你居住的城镇中的一座,
  • 当代译本 - “在你们的上帝耶和华将要赐给你们居住的各城中,如果你们听说某城里有恶人引诱城中的居民偏离正路,唆使他们去供奉你们不认识的其他神明,
  • 圣经新译本 - “在耶和华你的 神赐给你居住的一座城中,如果你听说
  • 中文标准译本 - 如果在你的神耶和华赐给你居住的某城,你听说
  • 现代标点和合本 - “在耶和华你神所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神’,
  • 和合本(拼音版) - “在耶和华你上帝所赐你居住的各城中,你若听人说,有些匪类从你们中间的一座城出来勾引本城的居民,说:‘我们不如去侍奉你们素来所不认识的别神。’
  • New International Version - If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in
  • New International Reader's Version - The Lord your God is giving you towns to live in. But suppose you hear something bad about one of those towns.
  • English Standard Version - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to dwell there,
  • New Living Translation - “When you begin living in the towns the Lord your God is giving you, you may hear
  • The Message - When word comes in from one of your cities that God, your God, is giving you to live in, reporting that evil men have gotten together with some of the citizens of the city and have broken away, saying, “Let’s go and worship other gods” (gods you know nothing about), then you must conduct a careful examination. Ask questions, investigate. If it turns out that the report is true and this abomination did in fact take place in your community, you must execute the citizens of that town. Kill them, setting that city apart for holy destruction: the city and everything in it including its animals. Gather the plunder in the middle of the town square and burn it all—town and plunder together up in smoke, a holy sacrifice to God, your God. Leave it there, ashes and ruins. Don’t build on that site again. And don’t let any of the plunder devoted to holy destruction stick to your fingers. Get rid of it so that God may turn from anger to compassion, generously making you prosper, just as he promised your ancestors.
  • Christian Standard Bible - “If you hear it said about one of your cities the Lord your God is giving you to live in,
  • New American Standard Bible - “If you hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you to live in, anyone saying that
  • Amplified Bible - “If you hear [it said] in one of your cities, which the Lord your God gives you to live in,
  • American Standard Version - If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,
  • King James Version - If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,
  • New English Translation - Suppose you should hear in one of your cities, which the Lord your God is giving you as a place to live, that
  • World English Bible - If you hear about one of your cities, which Yahweh your God gives you to dwell there, that
  • 新標點和合本 - 「在耶和華-你神所賜你居住的各城中,你若聽人說,有些匪類從你們中間的一座城出來勾引本城的居民,說:『我們不如去事奉你們素來所不認識的別神』;
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 「若你聽見人說,在耶和華-你上帝所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座,
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 「若你聽見人說,在耶和華—你 神所賜給你居住的城鎮中的一座,
  • 當代譯本 - 「在你們的上帝耶和華將要賜給你們居住的各城中,如果你們聽說某城裡有惡人引誘城中的居民偏離正路,唆使他們去供奉你們不認識的其他神明,
  • 聖經新譯本 - “在耶和華你的 神賜給你居住的一座城中,如果你聽說
  • 呂振中譯本 - 『在永恆主你的上帝所賜給你居住的一個城中、你若聽說
  • 中文標準譯本 - 如果在你的神耶和華賜給你居住的某城,你聽說
  • 現代標點和合本 - 「在耶和華你神所賜你居住的各城中,你若聽人說,有些匪類從你們中間的一座城出來勾引本城的居民,說『我們不如去侍奉你們素來所不認識的別神』,
  • 文理和合譯本 - 爾上帝耶和華賜爾諸邑、俾爾居之、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 爾上帝耶和華、錫爾眾邑、俾爾居處、浸假一邑之中有匪類、誘其居民、事素所未識之上帝、爾聞之、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主爾之天主所賜爾居之諸邑、爾若聞一邑中有匪類出、誘其邑之民曰、我儕莫若往事異邦之神、即爾素所未識之神、
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - »Si de alguna de las ciudades que el Señor tu Dios te da para que las habites llega el rumor de
  • 현대인의 성경 - “여러분의 하나님 여호와께서 여러분에게 주신 성에서 여러분이 살게 될 때
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Господь, твой Бог, дает тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если ты услышишь об одном из городов, которые Вечный, твой Бог, даёт тебе для жизни,
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Tout Israël l’apprendra et sera saisi de crainte, et l’on ne recommencera pas à commettre un tel méfait au milieu de vous.
  • リビングバイブル - イスラエルの町のどこかで、ほかの神々を拝むようにそそのかす者がいると聞いたら、まず、うわさが本当かどうか確かめなさい。事実そのとおりで、そんな恐ろしいことが主の下さった町で起こっていることがはっきりしたら、
  • Nova Versão Internacional - “Se vocês ouvirem dizer que numa das cidades que o Senhor, o seu Deus, dá a vocês para nelas morarem,
  • Hoffnung für alle - Ganz Israel soll davon erfahren, damit alle gewarnt sind und so etwas Abscheuliches nicht wieder vorkommt.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nếu có tin đồn về một thành trong các thành mà Chúa Hằng Hữu Đức Chúa Trời ban cho anh em,
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากท่านได้ยินคนกล่าวถึงเมืองใดที่พระยาห์เวห์พระเจ้าของท่านประทานให้ท่านเป็นที่พักอาศัย
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  • Judges 20:1 - So all the children of Israel came out, from Dan to Beersheba, as well as from the land of Gilead, and the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord at Mizpah.
  • Judges 20:2 - And the leaders of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, presented themselves in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.
  • Judges 20:3 - (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) Then the children of Israel said, “Tell us, how did this wicked deed happen?”
  • Judges 20:4 - So the Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered and said, “My concubine and I went into Gibeah, which belongs to Benjamin, to spend the night.
  • Judges 20:5 - And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and surrounded the house at night because of me. They intended to kill me, but instead they ravished my concubine so that she died.
  • Judges 20:6 - So I took hold of my concubine, cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the territory of the inheritance of Israel, because they committed lewdness and outrage in Israel.
  • Judges 20:7 - Look! All of you are children of Israel; give your advice and counsel here and now!”
  • Judges 20:8 - So all the people arose as one man, saying, “None of us will go to his tent, nor will any turn back to his house;
  • Judges 20:9 - but now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: We will go up against it by lot.
  • Judges 20:10 - We will take ten men out of every hundred throughout all the tribes of Israel, a hundred out of every thousand, and a thousand out of every ten thousand, to make provisions for the people, that when they come to Gibeah in Benjamin, they may repay all the vileness that they have done in Israel.”
  • Judges 20:11 - So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, united together as one man.
  • Judges 20:12 - Then the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, “What is this wickedness that has occurred among you?
  • Judges 20:13 - Now therefore, deliver up the men, the perverted men who are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death and remove the evil from Israel!” But the children of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brethren, the children of Israel.
  • Judges 20:14 - Instead, the children of Benjamin gathered together from their cities to Gibeah, to go to battle against the children of Israel.
  • Judges 20:15 - And from their cities at that time the children of Benjamin numbered twenty-six thousand men who drew the sword, besides the inhabitants of Gibeah, who numbered seven hundred select men.
  • Judges 20:16 - Among all this people were seven hundred select men who were left-handed; every one could sling a stone at a hair’s breadth and not miss.
  • Judges 20:17 - Now besides Benjamin, the men of Israel numbered four hundred thousand men who drew the sword; all of these were men of war.
  • Joshua 22:11 - Now the children of Israel heard someone say, “Behold, the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan—on the children of Israel’s side.”
  • Joshua 22:12 - And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go to war against them.
  • Joshua 22:13 - Then the children of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,
  • Joshua 22:14 - and with him ten rulers, one ruler each from the chief house of every tribe of Israel; and each one was the head of the house of his father among the divisions of Israel.
  • Joshua 22:15 - Then they came to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
  • Joshua 22:16 - “Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord: ‘What treachery is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you have built for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel this day against the Lord?
  • Joshua 22:17 - Is the iniquity of Peor not enough for us, from which we are not cleansed till this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
  • Joshua 22:18 - but that you must turn away this day from following the Lord? And it shall be, if you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
  • Joshua 22:19 - Nevertheless, if the land of your possession is unclean, then cross over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the Lord’s tabernacle stands, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the Lord, nor rebel against us, by building yourselves an altar besides the altar of the Lord our God.
  • Joshua 22:20 - Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.’ ”
  • Joshua 22:21 - Then the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the divisions of Israel:
  • Joshua 22:22 - “The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, He knows, and let Israel itself know—if it is in rebellion, or if in treachery against the Lord, do not save us this day.
  • Joshua 22:23 - If we have built ourselves an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer on it burnt offerings or grain offerings, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the Lord Himself require an account.
  • Joshua 22:24 - But in fact we have done it for fear, for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your descendants may speak to our descendants, saying, “What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel?
  • Joshua 22:25 - For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between you and us, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no part in the Lord.” So your descendants would make our descendants cease fearing the Lord.’
  • Joshua 22:26 - Therefore we said, ‘Let us now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,
  • Joshua 22:27 - but that it may be a witness between you and us and our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your descendants may not say to our descendants in time to come, “You have no part in the Lord.” ’
  • Joshua 22:28 - Therefore we said that it will be, when they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, ‘Here is the replica of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, though not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between you and us.’
  • Joshua 22:29 - Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn from following the Lord this day, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.”
  • Joshua 22:30 - Now when Phinehas the priest and the rulers of the congregation, the heads of the divisions of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
  • Joshua 22:31 - Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh, “This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this treachery against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.”
  • Joshua 22:32 - And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the rulers, returned from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, from the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought back word to them.
  • Joshua 22:33 - So the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God; they spoke no more of going against them in battle, to destroy the land where the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
  • Joshua 22:34 - The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar, Witness, “For it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”
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