26"That is why we said, 'Let us get ready and build an altar-but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'
26"That is why we said, 'Let us get ready and build an altar-but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'
23 If we have built our own altar to turn away from the Lord and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the Lord himself call us to account.
24 "No! We did it for fear that some day your descendants might say to ours, 'What do you have to do with the Lord , the God of Israel?
25 The Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you-you Reubenites and Gadites! You have no share in the Lord .' So your descendants might cause ours to stop fearing the Lord .
26 "That is why we said, 'Let us get ready and build an altar-but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'
27 On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the Lord at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, 'You have no share in the Lord .'
28 "And we said, 'If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the Lord 's altar, which our fathers built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.'
22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:26And said: Let us build us an altar, not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,
22:26And we said, Let us now set to work to build an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice,
22:26Therefore we said, Let as now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:26|Therefore we said, 'Let's now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
22:26And we say, Pray let us prepare for ourselves to build the altar — not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice —
22:26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: