Joshua 22:26 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁶ And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,

Joshua 22:26 Cross References

Isaiah 19:19

In that day shall there be an altar to the LORD in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar at the border thereof to the LORD.

Joshua 22:25

for the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

Joshua 22:27

but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no portion in the LORD.

Joshua 22:29

God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn away this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar there unto the LORD, and called it Jehovah-shalom: unto this day it is yet in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.