Joshua 22:26
24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- That is why we said, ‘Let us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.
- KJV
- Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
- WEB
- “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
- ASV
- Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:
- DARBY
- And we said, Let us now set to work to build an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice,
- BLB
- And we said, ‘Let us now prepare ourselves to build the altar—not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice—
- ÅB
- Derfor sa vi: La oss ta oss fore å bygge et alter, ikke til brennoffer eller til slaktoffer,
- OTB
- Derfor sa vi: 'La oss forberede og bygge et alter—men ikke for brennoffer eller ofre.
- B1930
- Derfor sa vi: La oss ta oss fore å bygge et alter, ikke til brennoffer eller til slaktoffer,