Joshua 22:26 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

²⁶ ‘Therefore we said: Let’s take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offering or sacrifice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²⁶ As a result we said, ‘Let’s protect ourselves by building an altar. It isn’t to be for an entirely burned offering or for sacrifice.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁶ and we said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, and not to offer victims,

Joshua 22:26 Cross References

Isaiah 19:19

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the centre of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.

Joshua 22:25

For the Lord has made the Jordan a border between us and you descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the Lord! ” So your descendants may cause our descendants to stop fearing the Lord.

Joshua 22:27

Instead, it is to be a witness between us and you,  and between the generations after us, so that we may carry out the worship of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.  Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, “You have no share in the Lord! ”

Joshua 22:29

We would never ever rebel against the Lord or turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice, other than the altar of the Lord our God, which is in front of his tabernacle.’

Judges 6:24

So Gideon built an altar to the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace.  It is still in Ophrah of the Abiezrites today.