Yosua 22:24-27

22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that ¹  in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? ²  22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ ³  In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying ⁴  the Lord. 22:26 So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, 22:27 but as a reminder to us and you, ⁵  and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence ⁶  with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. ⁷  Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ ⁸ 

[22:24]  ¹ tn Heb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”

[22:24]  ² tn Heb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”

[22:25]  ³ tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”

[22:25]  ⁴ tn Heb “fearing.”

[22:27]  ⁵ tn Heb “but it is a witness between us and you.”

[22:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “to do the service of the Lord before him.”

[22:27]  ⁷ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[22:27]  ⁸ tn Heb “You have no portion in the Lord.”