Joshua 22

1 then to call: call to Joshua to/for Reubenite and to/for Gad and to/for half tribe Manasseh

Joshua then summoned the leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh.

2 and to say to(wards) them you(m. p.) to keep: obey [obj] all which to command [obj] you Moses servant/slave LORD and to hear: obey in/on/with voice my to/for all which to command [obj] you

He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses, who served Yahweh [well], told you to do. You have also done what I told you to do.

3 not to leave: forsake [obj] brother: compatriot your this day many till [the] day: today [the] this and to keep: careful [obj] charge commandment LORD God your

For a long time you have helped the other tribes [to defeat their enemies]. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God commanded you to do.

4 and now to rest LORD God your to/for brother: compatriot your like/as as which to speak: promise to/for them and now to turn and to go: went to/for you to/for tent your to(wards) land: country/planet possession your which to give: give to/for you Moses servant/slave LORD in/on/with side: beside [the] Jordan

He promised to give peace to us Israelis, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan [River].

5 except to keep: careful much to/for to make: do [obj] [the] commandment and [obj] [the] instruction which to command [obj] you Moses servant/slave LORD to/for to love: lover [obj] LORD God your and to/for to go: walk in/on/with all way: conduct his and to/for to keep: obey commandment his and to/for to cleave in/on/with him and to/for to serve: minister him in/on/with all heart your and in/on/with all soul your

Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to obey his commands, and to continue to worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do.”

6 and to bless them Joshua and to send: depart them and to go: went to(wards) tent their

Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them, and they [prepared to] leave and return to their homes [on the east side of the Jordan River].

7 and to/for half tribe [the] Manasseh to give: give Moses in/on/with Bashan and to/for half his to give: give Joshua with brother: compatriot their (in/on/with side: beside *Q(K)*) [the] Jordan sea: west [to] and also for to send: depart them Joshua to(wards) tent: home their and to bless them

Moses had given the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh, and land on the west side of the Jordan [River] to the other half of the tribe. Before they left, he [asked God to] bless them.

8 and to say to(wards) them to/for to say in/on/with wealth many to return: return to(wards) tent your and in/on/with livestock many much in/on/with silver: money and in/on/with gold and in/on/with bronze and in/on/with iron and in/on/with garment to multiply much to divide spoil enemy your with brother: compatriot your

He said, “Go back to your homes and to all the things that you have taken from your enemies—the many animals and silver and gold and [things made of] bronze and iron, and many beautiful clothes. But you should share some of those things with other people of your tribe.”

9 and to return: return and to go: went son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad and half tribe [the] Manasseh from with son: descendant/people Israel from Shiloh which in/on/with land: country/planet Canaan to/for to go: went to(wards) land: country/planet [the] Gilead to(wards) land: country/planet possession their which to grasp in/on/with her upon lip: word LORD in/on/with hand: by Moses

So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelis at Shiloh in Canaan land, to return to their homes in the Gilead region. That was the area that belonged to them. It had been allotted to them by Moses as Yahweh had commanded.

10 and to come (in): come to(wards) border [the] Jordan which in/on/with land: country/planet Canaan and to build son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad and half tribe [the] Manasseh there altar upon [the] Jordan altar great: large to/for appearance

The people from those three tribes arrived near the western side of the Jordan River, at a town called Geliloth. There they built a large altar. [Then they crossed the Jordan River to the Gilead region].

11 and to hear: hear son: descendant/people Israel to/for to say behold to build son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad and half tribe [the] Manasseh [obj] [the] altar to(wards) opposite land: country/planet Canaan to(wards) border [the] Jordan to(wards) side: beside son: descendant/people Israel

But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built.

12 and to hear: hear son: descendant/people Israel and to gather all congregation son: descendant/people Israel Shiloh to/for to ascend: attack upon them to/for army: war

They became very angry with the men of those tribes, so they decided to fight them.

13 and to send: depart son: descendant/people Israel to(wards) son: descendant/people Reuben and to(wards) son: descendant/people Gad and to(wards) half tribe Manasseh to(wards) land: country/planet [the] Gilead [obj] Phinehas son: child Eleazar [the] priest

The Israelis sent Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar the Supreme Priest, to [talk with] the people of those three tribes.

14 and ten leader with him leader one leader one to/for house: household father to/for all tribe Israel and man: anyone head: leader house: household father their they(masc.) to/for thousand: clan Israel

They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes that were still at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his clan.

15 and to come (in): come to(wards) son: descendant/people Reuben and to(wards) son: descendant/people Gad and to(wards) half tribe Manasseh to(wards) land: country/planet [the] Gilead and to speak: speak with them to/for to say

Those leaders went to the Gilead region to talk to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. They said,

16 thus to say all congregation LORD what? [the] unfaithfulness [the] this which be unfaithful in/on/with God Israel to/for to return: return [the] day: today from after LORD in/on/with to build you to/for you altar to/for to rebel you [the] day: today in/on/with LORD

“All the other Israelis are asking, ‘Why have you rebelled against the God whom we Israelis [worship] by building an altar for yourselves?

17 little to/for us [obj] iniquity: crime Peor which not be pure from him till [the] day [the] this and to be [the] plague in/on/with congregation LORD

Have you forgotten what happened at Peor, [when some Israelis sinned by worshiping the god that the Moab people-group worship]? Many Israelis became very sick and died because of that sin, and we are still suffering because of their sin.

18 and you(m. p.) to return: return [the] day: today from after LORD and to be you(m. p.) to rebel [the] day: today in/on/with LORD and tomorrow to(wards) all congregation Israel be angry

Are you now turning away from obeying Yahweh and refusing to do what he wants? If you do not stop rebelling against Yahweh today, he will be angry with all of us Israelis tomorrow.’

19 and surely if unclean land: country/planet possession your to pass to/for you to(wards) land: country/planet possession LORD which to dwell there tabernacle LORD and to grasp in/on/with midst our and in/on/with LORD not to rebel and with us to(wards) to rebel in/on/with to build you to/for you altar from beside altar LORD God our

“If [you think that Yahweh considers] that your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh’s Sacred Tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh and against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.

20 not Achan son: child Zerah be unfaithful unfaithfulness in/on/with devoted thing and upon all congregation Israel to be wrath and he/she/it man one not to die in/on/with iniquity: crime his

Do you remember what happened when Zerah’s son Achan refused to obey [Yahweh’s command to destroy everything in Jericho]? That one man disobeyed God’s command, but many [HYP] other Israelis were punished. Achan died because of his sin, but other Israelis also died.”

21 and to answer son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad and half tribe [the] Manasseh and to speak: speak with head: leader thousand: clan Israel

The [leaders of the] tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh replied,

22 God God LORD God God LORD he/she/it to know and Israel he/she/it to know if in/on/with rebellion and if in/on/with unfaithfulness in/on/with LORD not to save us [the] day: today [the] this

“Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows [why we did that], and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong [against Yahweh], you may kill us.

23 to/for to build to/for us altar to/for to return: turn back from after LORD and if to/for to ascend: offer up upon him burnt offering and offering and if to/for to make: offer upon him sacrifice peace offering LORD he/she/it to seek

If we have disobeyed one of Yahweh’s laws, we request that he should punish us. We did not build that new altar to completely burn animals as sacrifices to Yahweh, or to offer on it sacrifices of grain or sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God.

24 and if: surely no not from anxiety from word: thing to make: do [obj] this to/for to say tomorrow to say son: descendant/people your to/for son: descendant/people our to/for to say what? to/for you and to/for LORD God Israel

“This is the reason that we built that altar: We were afraid/worried that some day your descendants would say that our descendants are not true Israelis. We were afraid that then they would say, ‘You are not allowed to worship Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis [worship].

25 and border: boundary to give: make LORD between us and between you son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad [obj] [the] Jordan nothing to/for you portion in/on/with LORD and to cease son: descendant/people your [obj] son: descendant/people our to/for lest to fear: revere [obj] LORD

Yahweh caused the Jordan River to be a boundary between us and you people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. So you are not allowed to worship Yahweh.’ We were worried that your descendants would force our descendants to stop worshiping Yahweh.

26 and to say to make please to/for us to/for to build [obj] [the] altar not to/for burnt offering and not to/for sacrifice

“That is the reason that we decided to build that [new] altar. But it is not an altar for completely burning sacrifices of animals and [burning other] sacrifices.

27 for witness he/she/it between us and between you and between generation our after us to/for to serve: minister [obj] service: ministry LORD to/for face: before his in/on/with burnt offering our and in/on/with sacrifice our and in/on/with peace offering our and not to say son: descendant/people your tomorrow to/for son: descendant/people our nothing to/for you portion in/on/with LORD

We built that new altar to prove/show to you and to us and to all of our descendants that we worship Yahweh by completely burning animal sacrifices and offerings of grain and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh [only at the place Yahweh chooses]. We do not want your descendants to say to our descendants, ‘You do not belong to Yahweh.’

28 and to say and to be for to say to(wards) us and to(wards) generation our tomorrow and to say to see: see [obj] pattern altar LORD which to make father our not to/for burnt offering and not to/for sacrifice for witness he/she/it between us and between you

“In the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, ‘Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh’s altar [that our ancestors built], but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It only shows that we are Israelis!’

29 forbid to/for us from us to/for to rebel in/on/with LORD and to/for to return: turn back [the] day: today from after LORD to/for to build altar to/for burnt offering to/for offering and to/for sacrifice from to/for alone: besides altar LORD God our which to/for face: before tabernacle his

We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires, by building an altar for completely burning some sacrifices and burning grain offerings and making [other] sacrifices. [We know that] there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God, and it is in front of the Sacred Tent [at Shiloh].”

30 and to hear: hear Phinehas [the] priest and leader [the] congregation and head: leader thousand: clan Israel which with him [obj] [the] word which to speak: speak son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad and son: descendant/people Manasseh and be good in/on/with eye their

When Phinehas the priest and the other [ten] leaders heard what they said, they were pleased.

31 and to say Phinehas son: child Eleazar [the] priest to(wards) son: descendant/people Reuben and to(wards) son: descendant/people Gad and to(wards) son: descendant/people Manasseh [the] day to know for in/on/with midst our LORD which not be unfaithful in/on/with LORD [the] unfaithfulness [the] this then to rescue [obj] son: descendant/people Israel from hand: power LORD

So Phinehas said to them, “Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelis, and that you were not rebelling against him [when you built that altar]. And we know that Yahweh will not punish us Israelis [because of your having done that].”

32 and to return: return Phinehas son: child Eleazar [the] priest and [the] leader from with son: descendant/people Reuben and from with son: descendant/people Gad from land: country/planet [the] Gilead to(wards) land: country/planet Canaan to(wards) son: descendant/people Israel and to return: return with them word

Then Phinehas and the Israeli leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the Gilead region, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelis what had happened.

33 and be good [the] word in/on/with eye son: descendant/people Israel and to bless God son: descendant/people Israel and not to say to/for to ascend: attack upon them to/for army: war to/for to ruin [obj] [the] land: country/planet which son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad to dwell in/on/with her

They were pleased, and they thanked God. And they did not talk any more about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land.

34 and to call: call by son: descendant/people Reuben and son: descendant/people Gad to/for altar for witness he/she/it between us for LORD [the] God

The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar ‘A reminder to us all that Yahweh is God’.