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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF JOS 22:1 (B.C. 1428 to 1427.) Manasseh, Rueben and God's Contingents Sent Home From the Army.
Joshua afterwards summoned the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
RF JOS 22:2 and said to them;" You have done all that Moses the servant of the EVER-LIVING ordered you, and you have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
RF JOS 22:3 You have not forsaken your brothers during this long period, until this day, and you have done the work your EVER-LIVING GOD ordered you.
RF JOS 22:4 Therefore, since your EVER-LIVING GOD has given quiet to your brothers, as He promised them, you can now return and go to your homes, in the country you possess, which Moses the servant of the EVER-LIVING gave you beyond the Jordan.
RF JOS 22:5 Take special care, however, to practice all the commands, and the law which Moses the servant of the EVER-LIVING ordered you,—and love your EVER-LIVING GOD, and walk in all His ways, and guard His instructions, and seek Him, and serve Him, with all your heart and with all your soul."
RF JOS 22:6 Then Joshua blessed and dismissed them, and they departed.
RF JOS 22:7 But to the half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given Bashan; and to the other half Joshua gave with their brothers on the westward side of the Jordan. Joshua also dismissed them to their houses, and blessed them,
RF JOS 22:8 and addressed them saying; "You return to your homes with great wealth, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing,—your share of the prizes, along with your brothers, from your enemies."
RF JOS 22:9 (B.C. 1428.) The Contingents of Reuben and Gad march for Home and Build an Alter.
So the sons of Reuben turned and went with the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, marching to the land of Gilad, to the country they possessed, which they possessed by command of the EVER-LIVING through the medium of Moses.
RF JOS 22:10 When the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, however, came to the rapids of the Jordan, in the land of Canaan, they built there an Altar near the Jordan,—a Great Memorial Altar.
RF JOS 22:11 But the children of Israel heard the report that the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh had built an altar on the confines of the land of Canaan, at the rapids of the Jordan, near the Ford of the children of Israel.
RF JOS 22:12 When the children of Israel heard it they convoked all the Parliament of the sons of Israel to Shiloh about going up against them to war.
RF JOS 22:13 (B.C. 1427.) The Parliament Send to ask an Explanation of that Act.
But the children of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilad, Phinehas the son of Aliazer the priest,
RF JOS 22:14 and ten princes with him, a single prince for each ancestral house of all the tribes of Israel, and a Headman of ancestral family of the regiments of Israel,
RF JOS 22:15 who went to the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilad, and said to them;—
RF JOS 22:16 "All the Parliament of the EVER-LIVING says thus; What perversity is this which you have erected against the GOD of Israel? turning to-day from following the EVER-LIVING, to build for yourselves an altar, revolting at once from the EVER-LIVING?
RF JOS 22:17 Was the offence of Peor a small matter for us,—which has not been cleansed from us to this day? and it brought a stroke from the EVER-LIVING to the assembly.
RF JOS 22:18 Yet you would turn to-day from following the EVER-LIVING! and you would revolt to-day from the EVER-LIVING, and to-morrow He will be angry with all the assembly of Israel!
RF JOS 22:19 "If, however, the country you own is unclean, pass over to the country possessed by the EVER-LIVING, where the dwelling of the EVER-LIVING is placed, and you shall possess amongst us. But revolt not from the EVER-LIVING. We will not, however, refuse you to build for yourselves an altar, but let it be a special altar to our EVER-LIVING GOD.
RF JOS 22:20 "Was not Akan, the descendant of Zerakh, very offensive in the devoted thing, and anger came upon all the assembly of Israel? and did not that same man die for his fault?"
RF JOS 22:21 The sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, however, replied to the heads of the regiments of Israel:—"
RF JOS 22:22 By the GOD of GODS! By the EVER-LIVING GOD of GODS! The EVER-LIVING Himself knows! and Israel itself should know if it is for revolt, or if it is for offence to the EVER-LIVING-then let us not be spared to-day
RF JOS 22:23 for building for ourselves an altar, if we have turned from following the EVER-LIVING. But it is not sought for the object of offering offerings and gifts, and to make offerings and sacrifices of thanks to the EVER-LIVING Himself.—
RF JOS 22:24 Was it not for the following event we did it, saying; 'To-morrow if your children say to our sons, What is the EVER-LIVING GOD of Israel to you?
RF JOS 22:25 When the EVER-LIVING gave boundaries to our children and your children,—the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, at the Jordan? You have no part in the EVER-LIVING And thus your children might prevent our children from ever seeing the EVER-LIVING.
RF JOS 22:26 So we said to ourselves, Let us build this Altar, not for offerings and not for sacrifice,
RF JOS 22:27 but for it to lie between us and you, and to the generations after us, to serve as a witness of our rights in the service of the EVER-LIVING to present to Him our offerings, and sacrifices, and peace offerings, that your children may not say to our children to-morrow,—'You have no part in the EVER-LIVING!'
RF JOS 22:28 So that it may be replied, when they say thus to us, or to our descendants hereafter, we can answer, 'Look at this building in the form of the altar of the EVER-LIVING which our fathers made,—not for offering, or for sacrifice, but as a bond between us and you.'
RF JOS 22:29 We reject the idea from us of revolting from the EVER-LIVING, or turning to-day from following the EVER-LIVING, or building an altar for offering and sacrifice, apart from the Altar of the EVER-LIVING GOD Who dwells before us."
RF JOS 22:30 When Phinehas the son of Aliazer the Priest, and all the Princes of the Parliament, and the heads of the regiments of Israel with them, heard the declarations of the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh,
RF JOS 22:31 Phinehas, the son of Aliazer the Priest, said to the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the sons of Manasseh; "We learn to-day that the EVER-LIVING is in the midst of us, since you have not offended the EVER-LIVING with an offence,—thus you have saved the children of Israel from the hand of the EVER-LIVING."
RF JOS 22:32 Then Phinehas, the son of Aliazer the Priest, returned, accompanied by the Princes, from the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, from the land of Gilad to the land of Canaan to the children of Israel, and reported the business to them,
RF JOS 22:33 and the affair was considered to be right in the opinion of the children of Israel and they thanked GOD, and decided not to go up to war against them, or waste the country where the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad resided,
RF JOS 22:34 because the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad declared "The Altar is a witness for itself between us that the EVER-LIVING IS GOD."




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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