Joshua 22:27

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace-offerings. And that your children to-morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

Cross References

Joshua 24:27

And he said to all the people: Behold, this stone shall be a testimony unto you, that it hath heard all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny it, and lie to the Lord your God.

Genesis 31:48

And Laban said: This heap shall be a witness between me and thee this day; and therefore the name thereof was called Galaad, that is, The witness heap.

Joshua 22:34

And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad called the altar which they had built, Our testimony, that the Lord is God.

Deuteronomy 12:11

In the place, which the Lord your God shall choose, that his name may be therein. Thither shall you bring all the things that I command you: holocausts, and victims, and tithes, and the first-fruits of your hands, and whatsoever is the choicest in the gifts which you shall vow to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:12

And Samuel took a stone, and laid it between Masphath and Sen: and he called the place, the Stone of Help. And he said: Thus far the Lord hath helped us.

Joshua 22:10

And when they were come to the banks of the Jordan, in the land of Chanaan, they built an altar immensely great near the Jordan.

Genesis 31:52

Shall be a witness: this heap, I say, and the stone, be they for a testimony, if either I shall pass beyond it going towards thee, or thou shalt pass beyond it, thinking harm to me.

Joshua 22:26

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

Joshua 22:28

And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.

Psalm 16:5

Perfect thou my goings in thy paths: that my footsteps be not moved.

Isaiah 19:19

In that day, there shall be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a monument of the Lord at the borders thereof.