Joshua 22:26-28

Evangelical Heritage Version

²⁶ So we said, “Come on now, let us build an altar—but not for burnt offerings and not for sacrifice.” ²⁷ Rather, it is to be a witness between us and you and between our generations after us concerning our right to perform the worship of the Lord before him by our burnt offerings, by our sacrifices, and by our fellowship offerings, so that your children cannot say in the future to our children, “You have no share in the Lord.”

²⁸ So we said, “If they say that to us and to our generations in the future, then we will say, ‘Look at the replica of the altar of the Lord that our fathers made—but not for burnt offerings and not for sacrifice. Rather it is a witness between us and you.’”