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32 And Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, and the leaders returned from the descendants[a] of Reuben and Gad, from the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan to the Israelites,[b] and they gave them their report.[c] 33 The report satisfied the Israelites;[d] they blessed God, and they did not speak of going up for battle against them to destroy the land in which the descendants[e] of Reuben and Gad were living.[f] 34 The descendants[g] of Reuben and Gad called the altar Witness, “Because,” they said, “it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:32 Or “sons”
  2. Joshua 22:32 Literally “sons/children of Israel”
  3. Joshua 22:32 Literally “they brought back a word to them”
  4. Joshua 22:33 Literally “The report was good in the eyes of the children of Israel”
  5. Joshua 22:33 Or “sons”
  6. Joshua 22:33 Or “dwelling”
  7. Joshua 22:34 Or “sons”