< Joshua 22 >

1 then to call: call to Joshua to/for Reubenite and to/for Gad and to/for half tribe Manasseh
At that time Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half 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 the servant of Yahweh commanded you. You have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.
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
You have not deserted your brothers these many days, down to this present day, and you have fulfilled the duties required by the commandments of Yahweh your God.
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
Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, just as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land you own, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
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
Just be very careful to observe the commandments and the law that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, and to cling to him and worship him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
6 and to bless them Joshua and to send: depart them and to go: went to(wards) tent their
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went back to their tents.
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
Now to one-half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given an inheritance in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave an inheritance beside their brothers in the land west of the Jordan. Joshua sent them away to their tents; he blessed 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
and said to them, “Return to your tents with much money, and with very much livestock, and with silver and gold, and with bronze and iron, and with very many garments. Divide the plunder from your enemies with your brothers.”
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 descendants of Reuben, the descendants of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh returned home, leaving the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan. They left to go to the region of Gilead, to their own land, which they themselves possessed, in obedience to the commandment of Yahweh, by the hand of Moses.
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
When they came to the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar beside the Jordan, a very large and prominent altar.
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
The people of Israel heard about this and said, “Look! The people of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the front of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth, in the region near the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the people of Israel.”
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
When the people of Israel heard of it, the whole assembly of the people of Israel gathered together at Shiloh to go up to make war against 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
Then the people of Israel sent messengers to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead. They also sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest,
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
and with him ten leaders, one from each of the tribal families of Israel, and every one of them was the head of a family among the clan of Israel.
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
They came to the people of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they spoke to them:
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
“The whole assembly of Yahweh says this, 'What is this unfaithfulness that you have committed against the God of Israel, by turning this day from following Yahweh by building yourself an altar this day in rebellion against Yahweh?
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
Was our sin at Peor not enough for us? Yet we have not even now cleansed ourselves from it. For that sin there came a plague on the assembly of Yahweh.
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
Must you also turn away from following Yahweh at this present day? If you also rebel against Yahweh today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole assembly of Israel.
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 the land that you possess is defiled, then you should pass over into the land where Yahweh's tabernacle stands and take for yourselves a possession among us. Only do not rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us by building an altar for yourselves other than the altar of 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
Did not Achan son of Zerah break faith in the matter of those things that had been reserved for God? Did not wrath fall on all the people of Israel? That man did not perish alone for his iniquity.'”
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
Then the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh replied in answer to the heads of the clans of Israel:
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
“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh! The Mighty One, God, Yahweh!—He knows, and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in breach of faith against Yahweh, do not spare us on this day
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
for having built an altar to turn ourselves away from following Yahweh. If we built that altar in order to offer on it burnt offerings, grain offerings, or peace offerings, then let Yahweh make us pay for it.
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
No! We did it for fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, 'What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?
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
For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you. You people of Reuben and people of Gad, you have nothing to do with Yahweh.' So your children might make our children cease to worship 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
So we said, 'Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offerings nor for any 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
but to be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we will perform the service of Yahweh before him, with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings, so that your children will never say to our children in time to come, “You have no share in 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
So we said, 'If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we would say, “Look! This is a copy of the altar of Yahweh, which our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.”
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
May it be far from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and today turn away from following him by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering, or for sacrifice, other than the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle.'”
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 leaders of the people, that is, the heads of the clans of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh said, that it was good in their eyes.
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
Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the people of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against him. Now you have rescued the people of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.”
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 son of Eleazar the priest, and the leaders returned from the Reubenites and the Gadites, out of the land of Gilead, back to the land of Canaan, to the people of Israel, and brought back word to them.
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
Their report was good in the eyes of the people of Israel. The people of Israel blessed God and spoke no more about making war against the Reubenites and the Gadites, in order to destroy the land where they had settled.
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 Reubenites and the Gadites named the altar “Witness,” for they said, “It is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.”

< Joshua 22 >