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Joshua 22:26 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; "

Joshua 22:26

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24 “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?

25 For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

26 “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in the LORD.’

28 “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of the LORD’s altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’

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Baruch 1:10

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"And they said: Behold, we have sent you money; therefore buy with the money burnt offerings, sin offerings, and incense, and prepare an oblation, and offer upon the altar of the Lord our God;"

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Deuteronomy 27:6

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"You shall build the LORD your God’s altar of uncut stones. You shall offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God."

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Exodus 8:26

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"Moses said, “It isn’t appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to the LORD our God. Behold, if we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, won’t they stone us?"

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1 Maccabees 4:53

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"and offered sacrifice according to the law on the new altar of burnt offerings which they had made."

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Malachi 1:10

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"“Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Armies, “neither will I accept an offering at your hand."

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1 Kings 3:2

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"However, the people sacrificed in the high places, because there was not yet a house built for the LORD’s name."

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Joshua 22:1

"Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,"

Joshua 22:2

"and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you."

Joshua 22:3

"You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of the LORD your God."

Joshua 22:4

"Now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan."

Joshua 22:5

"Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”"

Joshua 22:6

"So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents."

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