1Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

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Numbers 32:18, Numbers 32:33, Numbers 32:18, Numbers 32:33, Deuteronomy 29:7

2and 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.

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Joshua 1:12, Joshua 1:18, Joshua 1:12, Joshua 1:18, Numbers 32:20

3You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of the Lord your God.

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Philippians 1:23, Philippians 1:27, Philippians 1:23, Philippians 1:27

4Now 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.

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Numbers 32:18, Joshua 13:8, Numbers 32:18, Joshua 13:8, Deuteronomy 3:20

5Only 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."

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Matthew 22:37, Matthew 22:37, Exodus 20:6, Exodus 20:6, Romans 8:28

6So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

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Joshua 14:13, Joshua 14:13, Luke 24:50, Luke 24:50, Exodus 39:43

7Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them,

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Joshua 17:1, Joshua 17:12, Joshua 17:1, Joshua 17:12, Numbers 32:33

8and spoke to them, saying, "Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers."

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Numbers 31:27, Numbers 31:27, Deuteronomy 8:17, Deuteronomy 8:18, Deuteronomy 8:9

9The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of the Lord by Moses.

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Numbers 32:26, Numbers 32:29, Numbers 32:26, Numbers 32:29, Numbers 32:1

10When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at.

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Genesis 31:46, Genesis 31:52, Genesis 28:18, Joshua 4:5, Joshua 4:9

11The children of Israel heard this, "Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel."

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Deuteronomy 13:12, Deuteronomy 13:14, Deuteronomy 13:12, Deuteronomy 13:14, John 1:28

12When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

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Romans 10:2, Judges 20:1, Judges 20:11, Deuteronomy 13:15, Galatians 4:17

13The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,

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Numbers 25:7, Numbers 25:7, Psalms 106:30, Psalms 106:31, Judges 20:28

14and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel.

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Numbers 1:4, Numbers 1:4, Exodus 18:25, Exodus 18:25

15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

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Ezra 9:15, Psalms 78:8, Joshua 22:18, 2 Chronicles 10:19, 2 Chronicles 25:27

16"Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, 'What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against the Lord?

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Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14, Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14

17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of the Lord,

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Psalms 106:28, Psalms 106:29, Psalms 106:28, Psalms 106:29, Numbers 25:1

18that you must turn away this day from following the Lord? It will be, seeing that you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

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Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:22, Joshua 22:16, Joshua 22:16, 1 Kings 9:6

19However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the Lord, in which the Lord's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but do not rebel against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.

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Joshua 18:1, Joshua 18:1, 2 Chronicles 11:13, Exodus 15:17, Acts 10:14

20Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man did not perish alone in his iniquity.'"

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Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:1, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 7:5, Joshua 7:18

21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

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Proverbs 15:1, Exodus 18:21, Exodus 18:25, 1 Peter 3:15, Proverbs 16:1

22"The Mighty One, God, the Lord, the Mighty One, God, the Lord, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the Lord (do not save us this day),

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1 Kings 8:39, 1 Kings 8:39, Deuteronomy 10:17, Psalms 44:21, Deuteronomy 10:17

23that we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let the Lord himself require it.

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1 Samuel 20:16, Deuteronomy 18:19, 1 Samuel 20:16, Deuteronomy 18:19, 2 Chronicles 24:22

24If 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?

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Joshua 4:6, Joshua 4:6, Genesis 18:19, Genesis 30:33, Exodus 13:14

25For 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.

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1 Kings 12:27, 1 Kings 12:30, 1 Kings 15:30, Joshua 22:27, 1 Kings 14:16

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

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27but 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.'

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Joshua 24:27, Joshua 24:27, Genesis 31:48, Genesis 31:48, Deuteronomy 12:17

28Therefore 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 the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

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Exodus 25:40, Ezekiel 43:10, Ezekiel 43:11, Hebrews 8:5, Exodus 25:40

29Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn away this day from following the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord our God that is before his tabernacle!"

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Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14, Joshua 24:16, Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14

30When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.

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Joshua 22:33, Joshua 22:33, Acts 11:18, 1 Samuel 25:32, 1 Samuel 25:33

31Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, "Today we know that the Lord is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against the Lord. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord."

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Leviticus 26:11, Leviticus 26:12, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Leviticus 26:11, Leviticus 26:12

32Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

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Proverbs 25:13, Joshua 22:12, Joshua 22:14, Proverbs 25:13, Joshua 22:12

33The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived.

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1 Chronicles 29:20, Luke 2:28, Daniel 2:19, 1 Chronicles 29:20, Luke 2:28

34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that the Lord is God."

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Joshua 22:27, Joshua 22:27, Isaiah 43:10, Matthew 4:10, Isaiah 43:10