In that day, there will be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a monument of the Lord beside its borders.
Joshua 22:26 - Catholic Public Domain Version and we said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, and not to offer victims, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice, American Standard Version (1901) Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice: Common English Bible 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.’ Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims, English Standard Version 2016 Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, |
In that day, there will be an altar of the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt and a monument of the Lord beside its borders.
The Lord has stationed the river Jordan as the border between us and you, O sons of Reuben, O sons of Gad. And therefore, you have no part in the Lord.' And by this occasion, your sons would turn away our sons from the fear of the Lord. And so we sought something better,
but as a testimony between us and you, and between our descendents and your progeny, so that we may serve the Lord, and so that it may be our right to offer holocausts, and victims, and peace offerings, and so that tomorrow your sons may not say to our sons: 'You have no part in the Lord.'
May this wickedness be far from us, such that we would withdraw from the Lord, and would forsake his paths, by constructing an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, contrary to the altar of the Lord our God, which was built before his tabernacle."
Therefore, Gideon built an altar to the Lord there, and he called it, the Peace of the Lord, even to the present day. And while he was still at Ophrah, which is of the family of Ezri,