NET Bible
"So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,"
— Joshua 22:26, NET Bible
“Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:”
“Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice: ”
“"Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;”
“And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,”
“So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:”
“Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:”
If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.
We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?
The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.
So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,
but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’
We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’
Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”