26And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,


In Context

23 And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him require and judge:

24 And not rather with this thought and design, that we should say: To morrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do with the Lord the God of Israel?

25 The Lord hath put the river Jordan for a border between us and you, O ye children of Ruben, and ye children of Gad: and therefore you have no part in the Lord. And by this occasion you children shall turn away our children from the fear of the Lord. We therefore thought, it best,

26 And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,

27 But for a testimony between us and you, and our posterity and yours, that we may serve the Lord, and that we may have a right to offer both holocausts, and victims and sacrifices of peace offerings: and that your children to morrow may not say to our children: You have no part in the Lord.

28 And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for a testimony between us and you.

Joshua 22:26 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

22:26"That is why we said, 'Let us get ready and build an altar-but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26And we said, Let us now set to work to build an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice,

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

22:26Therefore we said, Let as now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26|Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

22:26And we say, Pray let us prepare for ourselves to build the altar — not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice —

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: