23 If we have built us an altar to return away from the Lord, either to offer thereon burnt offering, or meat offering, or to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord [a]himself require it:

24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might say unto our children, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?

25 For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and of Gad: therefore ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children [b]cease from fearing the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:23 Let him punish us.
  2. Joshua 22:25 Or, to turn back from the true God.

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