World English Bible
""Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;"
— Joshua 22:26, World English 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: ”
“So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,”
“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:”
that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it.
"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 Yahweh, the God of Israel?
For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh."' So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.
"Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh 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 Yahweh.'
"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 altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'
"Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!"