Joshua - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 245

22--11 THE BOOK OF THE PERIOD OF JOSHUA. 22———2g II I2 of Reuben, andthe sons of Gad, and { yourselves an altar, but let it be a the half tribe of Manasseh, however, came to the rapids of the jcrdan, in the land of Canan, they built there an Altar near the ]0rda¤,—·—a. Great Memorial Altar. But the children of Israel heard the report that the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Mzmasseh had built an altar on the confines of the land of Canan, at the rapids of the jordan, near the Ford of the children of Israel. When the chil— dren of Israel heard it they convoked all the Parliament of the sons of Israel to Shiloh about going up against them to war. .0. r4z7.) Wha gparlimnzui smh in ask an ®szp1mmii¤u nf that §\ci. :3 But the children of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of 16 Manasseh, to the land of Gilad, Phinehas the son of Aliazer the priest, and ten princes with him, a single prince for each ancestral house of all the tribes of Israel, and a Headrnan of ancestral family of the regiments of Israel, who went to the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manas- seh, in the land of Gilad, and said to them ;——- ‘ All the Parliament of the EVER-

L1v1NG· says thus;—-‘What per- versity is this which you have erected against the GOD of Israel? turning to·day from following the Evnienivine, to build for your- selves an altar, revolting at once

iq from the Evan-Liviue? Was the offence of Peor a small matter for us,-which has not been cleansed 18 from us to this day? and it brought a stroke from the Evn12—L1v1No to the assembly. Yet you would turn to-day from following the EVER- Liv1NGl and you would revolt to- day from the Evaamivzue, and to—rnorrow He will be angry with all the assembly of Israeli 'If, however, the country you own

is unclean, pass over tothe country possessed by the Eva1z—1;,1v1NG, where the dwelling of the EVER- Livme is placed, and you shall possess amongst us., But revolt not from the Evan-mvme. We will special altar to our Evux—L1v1No Gon. ‘ Was not Akan, the descendant

of Zerakh, very offensive in the devoted thing, and anger came upon all the assembly of Israel? and did not that same man die for his fault? The sons of Reuben, and the sons of

Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, however, replied to the heads of the regiments of Israel : ‘By the GOD of GODS! By the

Evaizmivmo Goo of Gonsl The Evaaaxvino Himself knows! and Israel itself should know if it is for revolt, or if it is for offence to the EvER—L1v1NG-——then let us not be spared to-day for building for our- selves an altar, if we have turned from following the EVER-LIVING. But it is not sought for the object of offering offerings and gifts, and to make offerings and sacrifices of thanks to the Evan-Livmo Him- self.———Was it not for the following I`o~ morrow if your children say to our sons, What is the EVER-Lrvme GOD of Israel to you? When the EvER~L1v1NG gave boundaries to our children and your children,-—the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, at the jordan? You have no part in the EVER-LIVING? And thus your children might prevent our children from ever seeing the EvER—L1v1NG. So we said to ourselves, Let us build this Altar, not for offerings and not for sacrifice, but for it to lie between us and you, and to the generations after us, to serve as a witness of our rights in the service of the EVER- uviue to present to Him our offerings, and sacrifices, and peace offerings, that your children may not say to our children to—morrow, ‘You have no part in the EVER- LIVINGI ’ S0 that it may be replied, when they say thus to us, or to our de- scendants hereafter, we can answer, Look at this building in the form of

the altar of the Evan-Lrvxuo which our fathers made;-not for offering, or for sacrifice, but as a bond be- tween us and you,’ We reject the idea from us of revolting from the EVER-LIVING, or turning to—day from 20 QI 22 26 following the EVER·LIv1NG, or build~ ing an altar for offering and sacrifice, apart from the Altar _of_th_e Evert- not, however, refuse you to build for l LIVING GOD Who dwells before us.’