YEHOSHUA BEN NUN - JOSHUA 22

Reuben And Gad, With The Half Tribe Of Manasseh, Dismissed To Their Homes

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1 ?Then Yehoshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

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2 And said to them, You have kept all that Mosheh the servant of YAHWEH commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

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3 You have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of YAHWEH your ABBA.

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4 And now YAHWEH your ABBA has given rest to your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return you, and get you to your tents, and to the land of your possession, which Mosheh the servant of YAHWEH gave you on the other side Yardan.

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5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the torah, which Mosheh the servant of YAHWEH charged you, to love YAHWEH your ABBA, 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.

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6 So Yehoshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went to their tents.

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7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Mosheh had given possession in Bashan: but to the other half thereof gave Yehoshua among their brethren on this side Yardan westward. And when Yehoshua sent them away also to their tents, then he blessed them,

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8 And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

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9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Yisrael out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the Word of YAHWEH by the hand of Mosheh.

They Build An Altar Of Testimony, The Congregation Offended Thereat

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10 ?And when they came to the borders of Yardan, that are 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 Yardan, a great altar to see to.

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11 And the children of Yisrael heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Yardan, at the passage of the children of Yisrael.

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12 And when the children of Yisrael heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Yisrael gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.

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13 And the children of Yisrael 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 kohen,

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14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Yisrael; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Yisrael.

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15 And 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,

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16 Thus saith the whole congregation of YAHWEH, What trespass is this that you have committed against YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael, to turn away this day from following YAHWEH, in that you have built you an altar, that you might rebel this day against YAHWEH?

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17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of YAHWEH,

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18 But that you must turn away this day from following YAHWEH? and it will be, seeing you rebel to day against YAHWEH, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Yisrael.

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19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass you over to the land of the possession of YAHWEH, wherein YAHWEH's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us: but rebel not against YAHWEH, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of YAHWEH our ABBA.

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20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Yisrael? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

The Answer Of The Reubenites

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21 ?Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of the thousands of Yisrael,

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22 YAHWEH Almighty of gods, YAHWEH El of gods, he knows, and Yisrael he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against YAHWEH, (save us not this day,)

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23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following YAHWEH, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer shalom offerings thereon, let YAHWEH himself require it;

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24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with YAHWEH the Sovereign Ruler of Yisrael?

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25 For YAHWEH has made Yardan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no part in YAHWEH: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing YAHWEH.

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26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

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27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of YAHWEH before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our shalom offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in YAHWEH.

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28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of YAHWEH, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

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29 YAHWEH forbid that we should rebel against YAHWEH, and turn this day from following YAHWEH, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of YAHWEH our ABBA that is before his tabernacle.

The Children Of Yisrael Satisfied

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30 ?And when Phinehas the kohen, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Yisrael which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

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31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the kohen said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that YAHWEH is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against YAHWEH: now you have delivered the children of Yisrael out of the hand of YAHWEH.

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32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the kohen, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Yisrael, and brought them word again.

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33 And the thing pleased the children of Yisrael; and the children of Yisrael blessed YAHWEH, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

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34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that YAHWEH is Sovereign Ruler.