and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments,
and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul.
022:006 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went
to their tents.
022:007 Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
[inheritance] in Bashan; but to the other half gave
Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward;
moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents,
he blessed them,
022:008 and spoke to them, saying, Return with much wealth to your tents,
and with very much livestock, with silver, and with gold,
and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing:
divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
022:009 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe
of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel
out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land
of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned,
according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses.
022:010 When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land
of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan,
a great altar to look on.
022:011 The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan,
in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains
to the children of Israel.
022:012 When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation
of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh,
to go up against them to war.
022:013 The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh,
into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
022:014 and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for
each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them
head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.
022:015 They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad,
and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
and they spoke with them, saying,
022:016 Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass
is this that you have committed against the God of Israel,
to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you
have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?
022:017 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we
have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came
a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,
022:018 that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it