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eodem tempore vocavit Iosue Rubenitas et Gadditas etdimidiam tribum Manasse

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dixitque ad eos fecistis omnia quae vobis praecepit Mosesfamulus Domini mihi quoque in omnibus oboedistis

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nec reliquistis fratres vestros longo tempore usque inpraesentem diem custodientes imperium Domini Dei vestri

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quia igitur dedit Dominus Deus vester fratribus vestrisquietem ac pacem sicut pollicitus est revertimini et ite intabernacula vestra et in terram possessionis quam tradiditvobis Moses famulus Domini trans Iordanem

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ita dumtaxat ut custodiatis adtente et opere conpleatismandatum et legem quam praecepit vobis Moses servus Domini utdiligatis Dominum Deum vestrum et ambuletis in omnibus viiseius et observetis mandata illius adhereatisque ei ac serviatisin omni corde et in omni anima vestra

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benedixitque eis Iosue et dimisit eos qui reversi sunt intabernacula sua

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tribui autem Manasse mediae possessionem Moses dederat inBasan et idcirco mediae quae superfuit dedit Iosue sortem interceteros fratres suos trans Iordanem ad occidentalem eius plagamcumque dimitteret eos in tabernacula sua et benedixisset illis

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dixit ad eos in multa substantia atque divitiis revertiminiad sedes vestras cum argento et auro aere ac ferro et vestemultiplici dividite praedam hostium cum fratribus vestris

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reversique sunt et abierunt filii Ruben et filii Gad etdimidia tribus Manasse a filiis Israhel de Silo quae sita estin Chanaan ut intrarent Galaad terram possessionis suae quamobtinuerant iuxta imperium Domini in manu Mosi

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cumque venissent ad tumulos Iordanis in terra Chanaanaedificaverunt iuxta Iordanem altare infinitae magnitudinis

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quod cum audissent filii Israhel et ad eos certi nuntiidetulissent aedificasse filios Ruben et Gad et dimidiae tribusManasse altare in terra Chanaan super Iordanis tumulos contrafilios Israhel

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convenerunt omnes in Silo ut ascenderent et dimicarentcontra eos

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et interim miserunt ad illos in terram Galaad Fineesfilium Eleazar sacerdotem

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et decem principes cum eo singulos de tribubus singulis

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qui venerunt ad filios Ruben et Gad et dimidiae tribusManasse in terram Galaad dixeruntque ad eos

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haec mandat omnis populus Domini quae est istatransgressio cur reliquistis Dominum Deum Israhel aedificantesaltare sacrilegum et a cultu illius recedentes

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an parum vobis est quod peccastis in Beelphegor et usquein praesentem diem macula huius sceleris in nobis permanetmultique de populo corruerunt

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et vos hodie reliquistis Dominum et cras in universumIsrahel eius ira desaeviet

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quod si putatis inmundam esse terram possessionis vestraetransite ad terram in qua tabernaculum Domini est et habitateinter nos tantum ut a Domino et a nostro consortio nonrecedatis aedificato altari praeter altare Domini Dei vestri

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nonne Achan filius Zare praeteriit mandatum Domini etsuper omnem populum Israhel ira eius incubuit et ille erat unushomo atque utinam solus perisset in scelere suo

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responderuntque filii Ruben et Gad et dimidiae tribusManasse principibus legationis Israhel

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fortissimus Deus Dominus fortissimus Deus Dominus ipsenovit et Israhel simul intelleget si praevaricationis animo hocaltare construximus non custodiat nos sed puniat in praesenti

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et si ea mente fecimus ut holocausta et sacrificium etpacificas victimas super eo inponeremus ipse quaerat et iudicet

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et non ea magis cogitatione atque tractatu ut diceremuscras dicent filii vestri filiis nostris quid vobis et DominoDeo Israhel

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terminum posuit Dominus inter nos et vos o filii Ruben etfilii Gad Iordanem fluvium et idcirco partem non habetis inDomino et per hanc occasionem avertent filii vestri filiosnostros a timore Domini putavimus itaque melius

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et diximus extruamus nobis altare non in holocausta nequead victimas offerendas

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sed in testimonium inter nos et vos et subolem nostramvestramque progeniem ut serviamus Domino et iuris nostri sitofferre holocausta et victimas et pacificas hostias etnequaquam dicant cras filii vestri filiis nostris non est vobispars in Domino

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quod si voluerint dicere respondebunt eis ecce altareDomini quod fecerunt patres nostri non in holocausta neque insacrificium sed in testimonium vestrum ac nostrum

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absit a nobis hoc scelus ut recedamus a Domino et eiusvestigia relinquamus extructo altari ad holocausta etsacrificia et victimas offerendas praeter altare Domini Deinostri quod extructum est ante tabernaculum eius

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quibus auditis Finees sacerdos et principes legationisIsrahel qui erant cum eo placati sunt et verba filiorum Rubenet Gad et dimidiae tribus Manasse libentissime susceperunt

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dixitque Finees filius Eleazari sacerdos ad eos nuncscimus quod nobiscum sit Dominus quoniam alieni estis apraevaricatione hac et liberastis filios Israhel de manu Domini

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reversusque est cum principibus a filiis Ruben et Gad deterra Galaad finium Chanaan ad filios Israhel et rettulit eis

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placuitque sermo cunctis audientibus et laudaverunt Deumfilii Israhel et nequaquam ultra dixerunt ut ascenderent contraeos atque pugnarent et delerent terram possessionis eorum

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vocaveruntque filii Ruben et filii Gad altare quodextruxerant Testimonium nostrum quod Dominus ipse sit Deus

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022:001
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

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And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:

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Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

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And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.

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But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

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Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,

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And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

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And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

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And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.

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And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.

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And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,

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And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.

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And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,

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Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?

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Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,

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But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

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Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.

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Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

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Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,

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The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)

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That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

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And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?

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For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

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Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

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But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.

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Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.

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God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.

022:030
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

022:031
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.

022:032
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.

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And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.

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