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27 but instead it will serve as a reminder[a] between us and you and between our generations after us, that we are to serve the Lord with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings. That way your descendants will not say to our descendants in the future, “You have no allotment from the Lord.”’

28 “That’s also why we said, ‘It may be if they say these things[b] to us and to our descendants in the future, so we will respond, “Look at this replica of the altar of the Lord that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifice, but rather as a reminder[c] between us and you. 29 May we never rebel against the Lord today by building an altar for burnt offerings, for grain offerings, or for sacrifice to replace[d] the altar of the Lord our God which stands before his Tent.”’”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:27 Or witness
  2. Joshua 22:28 The Heb. lacks these things
  3. Joshua 22:28 Or witness
  4. Joshua 22:29 Or sacrifice besides