will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow
he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
022:019 However, if the land of your possession be unclean,
then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh,
in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us:
but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us,
in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.
022:020 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing,
and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man
didn't perish alone in his iniquity.
022:021 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads
of the thousands of Israel,
022:022 The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows;
and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in
trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),
022:023 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh;
or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal offering,
or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings thereon,
let Yahweh himself require it;
022:024 and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this,
[and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might
speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh,
the God of Israel?
022:025 for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you,
you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion
in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease
from fearing Yahweh.
022:026 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar,
not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
022:027 but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our
generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh
before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices,
and with our peace offerings; that your children may not tell
our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.
022:028 Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us
or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say,
Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our
fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
but it is a witness between us and you.
022:029 Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh,
and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar
for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.
022:030 When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation,
even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him,
heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children