Joshua 22:26 - Modern English Version

²⁶ “So we said to each other, ‘Let us build this altar, 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 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 19:19

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

Joshua 22:25

The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, the descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the Lord!’ In this way your descendants might make our descendants to stop worshipping the Lord.

Joshua 22:27

but as a witness for us, for you, and for the generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings, and in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, “You have no share in the Lord!” ’

Joshua 22:29

“God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord by turning from following the Lord today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices other than the altar of the Lord God that stands before His tabernacle!”

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar for the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. Even to this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.