Joshua 22:24-30

²⁴But we have done this for the sake of precaution concerning this thing, saying, Lest hereafter your sons should say to our sons, What have you° to do with the Lord God of Israel?

²⁵Whereas the Lord has set boundaries between us and you, even Jordan, and you° have no portion in the Lord: so your sons shall alienate our sons, that they should not worship the Lord.

²⁶And we gave orders to do thus, to build this altar, not for burnt offerings, nor for meat-offerings;

²⁷but that this may be a witness between you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the Lord before him, with our burnt offerings and our meat-offerings and our peace-offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, You° have no portion in the Lord.

²⁸And we said, If ever it should come to pass that they should speak so to us, or to our posterity hereafter; then shall they say, Behold the likeness of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for the sake of burnt offerings, nor for the sake of meat-offerings, but it is a witness between you and us, and between our sons.

²⁹Far be it from us therefore that we should turn away from the Lord this day so as to apostatize from the Lord, so as that we should build an altar for burnt offerings, and for peace-offerings, besides the altar of the Lord which is before his tabernacle.

³⁰And Phinees the priest and all the chiefs of the congregation of Israel who were with him heard the words which the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse spoke; and it pleased them.