RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

11 And the children of Yisrael who heard it said, See, the
children of Reuven and the children of Gad and the half
tribe of Menashsheh have built an altar opposite the land
of Kanaan, in the borders of the Yarden, at the passage of
the children of Yisrael.
12 And when the children of Yisrael heard it, the whole
congregation of the children of Yisrael gathered
themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against
them.
13 And the children of Yisrael sent to the children of
Reuven, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe
of Menashsheh, into the land of Gilad, Pinchus the son of
El-Azar the kohen,
14 And with him ten leaders, one from each bayit a leader
throughout all the tribes of Yisrael; and each one was a
head of the bayit of their ahvot among the thousands of
Yisrael.
15 And they came to the children of Reuven, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Menashsheh, to
the land of Gilad, and they spoke with them, saying,
16 This says the whole congregation of vuvh, What
trespass is this that you have committed against the
Elohim of Yisrael, to turn away this day from following
vuvh, in that you have built an altar, that you might rebel
this day against vuvh?
17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we
are not cleansed until this day, although there was a
plague in the congregation of vuvh;
18 That you must turn away this day from following
vuvh? And it will be, if you rebel today against vuvh, that
tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation
of Yisrael.
19 And, if the land of your possession is unclean, then
pass over to the land of the possession of vuvh, where
vuvh's Tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us:
but rebel not against vuvh, nor rebel against us, in
building an altar besides the altar of vuvh our Elohim in
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20 Did not Achan the son of Zerach commit a trespass in
the cursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of
Yisrael? And that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.
21 Then the children of Reuven and the children of Gad
and the half tribe of Menashsheh answered, and said to
the heads of the thousands of Yisrael,
22 vuvh El of Elohim, vuvh El of Elohim, He knows our
reasons, and let Yisrael also know our reasons; if it was
built in rebellion, or in transgression against vuvh, then let
Him not save us this day,
23 If we have built an altar to turn away from following
vuvh, or to offer on it burnt offerings or meat offerings, or
if to offer shalom offerings on it, let vuvh Himself enact
retribution;
24 But truly because of fear we built it, saying, perhaps in
times to come your children might speak to our children,
saying, What have you to do with vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael?
25 For vuvh has made the Yarden River a border between
us and you, you children of Reuven and children of Gad;
you have no part with vuvh: so might your children make
our children cease from fearing vuvh.
26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an
altar, not for burnt offering, or for sacrifice:
27 But that it may serve as a witness between us, and you,
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and our generations after us, that we might do the service
of vuvh before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our shalom offerings; that your
children may not say to our children in time to come, You
have no part with vuvh.
28 Therefore we said, that it shall be, if they should say
this to us, or to our generations in times to come, that we
may say again, See the pattern of the altar of vuvh, which
our ahvot made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices;
but it is a witness between us and you.
29 Far be it from us to rebel against vuvh, and turn this
day from following vuvh, to build an altar for burnt
offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the
altar of vuvh our Elohim that is before His Tabernacle.
30 And when Pinchus the kohen, and the leaders of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Yisrael who
were with him, heard the words that the children of
Reuven and the children of Gad and the children of
Menashsheh spoke, it pleased them.
31 And Pinchus the son of El-Azar the kohen said to the
children of Reuven, and to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Menashsheh, This day we perceive that vuvh
is among us, because you have not committed this
trespass against vuvh: now you have delivered the
children of Yisrael out of the hand of vuvh.
32 And Pinchus the son of El-Azar the kohen, and the
leaders, returned from the children of Reuven, and from
the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilad, to the land
of Kanaan, to the children of Yisrael, and brought them
word again.
33 And the thing pleased the children of Yisrael; and the
children of Yisrael blessed Elohim, and no longer
intended to go up against them in battle, to destroy the
land where the children of Reuven and Gad dwelt.
34 And the children of Reuven and the children of Gad
called the altar Ed, for it shall serve as a witness between
us that vuvh is our Elohim.
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And it came to pass a long time after that vuvh had
given rest to Yisrael from all their enemies all around,
that Yahoshua grew old and advanced in age.
2 And Yahoshua called for kol Yisrael, and for their
zechanim, and for their heads, and for their shophtim, and
for their officers, and said to them, I am old and advanced
in age:
3 And you have seen all that vuvh your Elohim has done
to all these nations because of you; for vuvh your Elohim
is He that has fought for you.
4 See; I have divided to you by lot these nations that
remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the
Yarden River, with all the nations that I have cut off, even
to the Great Sea westward.
5 And vuvh your Elohim, He shall expel them from
before you, and drive them out of your sight; and you
shall possess their land, as vuvh your Elohim has
promised to you.
6 Be therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that
is written in the scroll of the Torah of Moshe, that you
turn not aside from it either to the right hand, or to the
left;
7 That you come not among these nations, these that
remain among you; neither make mention of the name of
their elohim, nor swear by them, neither serve them, nor