Joshua 22:27

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

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  • Josh 24:27 : 27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.
  • Gen 31:48 : 48 And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,
  • Deut 12:5-6 : 5 But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there; 6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;
  • Deut 12:11 : 11 Then there will be a place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name, and there you will take all the things which I give you orders to take: your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up, and the offerings of your oaths which you make to the Lord;
  • Deut 12:17-18 : 17 In your towns you are not to take as food the tenth part of your grain, or of your wine or your oil, or the first births of your herds or of your flocks, or anything offered under an oath, or freely offered to the Lord, or given as a lifted offering; 18 But they will be your food before the Lord your God in the place of his selection, where you may make a feast of them, with your son and your daughter, and your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite who is living with you: and you will have joy before the Lord your God in everything to which you put your hand.
  • Josh 22:34 : 34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.
  • Deut 12:26-27 : 26 But the holy things which you have, and the offerings of your oaths, you are to take to the place which will be marked out by the Lord: 27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.
  • Josh 22:10 : 10 Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.
  • Gen 31:52 : 52 They will be witness that I will not go over these stones to you, and you will not go over these stones or this pillar to me, for any evil purpose.
  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 22:28-29
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    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

    29 Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House.

  • Josh 22:23-26
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    84%

    23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it;

    24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

    25 For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.

    26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:

  • Josh 24:27
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    27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.

  • Josh 4:6
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    6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children say to you in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?

  • Josh 22:34
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    34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.

  • Exod 12:24-26
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    24 And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.

    25 And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

    26 And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

  • Deut 29:12-15
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    74%

    12 With the purpose of taking part in the agreement of the Lord your God, and his oath which he makes with you today:

    13 And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

    14 And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;

    15 But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:

  • Ps 78:4-6
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    4 We will not keep them secret from our children; we will make clear to the coming generation the praises of the Lord and his strength, and the great works of wonder which he has done.

    5 He put up a witness in Jacob, and made a law in Israel; which he gave to our fathers so that they might give knowledge of them to their children;

    6 So that the generation to come might have knowledge of them, even the children of the future, who would give word of them to their children;

  • Deut 6:20
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    20 And when your son says to you in time to come, What is the reason for these rules and laws and decisions which the Lord our God has given you?

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
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    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Josh 22:19
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    19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.

  • Joel 1:3
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    3 Give the story of it to your children, and let them give it to their children, and their children to another generation.

  • 1 Chr 28:8
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    8 So now, before the eyes of all Israel, the people of the Lord, and in the hearing of our God, keep and be true to the orders of the Lord your God; so that you may have this good land for yourselves and give it for a heritage to your children after you for ever.

  • Deut 5:3
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    3 The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.

  • Num 18:5
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    5 You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:26
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    26 Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
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    10 Now it is my purpose to make an agreement with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from us.

  • Josh 22:16
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    16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord?

  • Gen 26:28
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    28 And they said, We saw clearly that the Lord was with you: so we said, Let there be an oath between us and you, and let us make an agreement with you;

  • Deut 27:7
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    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Judg 11:10
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    10 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.

  • Deut 12:25
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    25 Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.

  • Deut 12:28
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    28 Take note of all these orders I am giving you and give attention to them, so that it may be well for you and for your children after you for ever, while you do what is good and right in the eyes of the Lord your God.

  • Lev 17:5
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    5 So that the children of Israel may take to the Lord, to the door of the Tent of meeting and to the priest, the offerings which they have put to death in the open country, and that they may make their peace-offerings to the Lord.

  • Deut 31:13
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    13 And so that your children, to whom it is new, may give ear and be trained in the fear of the Lord your God, while you are living in the land which you are going over Jordan to take for your heritage.

  • Deut 29:22
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    22 And future generations, your children coming after you, and travellers from far countries, will say, when they see the punishments of that land and the diseases which the Lord has sent on it;

  • Deut 11:2
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    2 And be certain in your minds this day; for these words are not said to your children, who have had no experience of the training of the Lord your God, and who have not seen his great power or his strong hand and his stretched-out arm,

  • Deut 6:25
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    25 And it will be our righteousness if we take care to keep all this order before the Lord our God as he has given it to us.

  • Deut 4:25
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    25 If, when you have had children and children's children, and have been living a long time in the land, you are turned to evil ways, and make an image of any sort, and do evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, moving him to wrath:

  • Deut 11:21
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    21 So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.

  • 1 Sam 20:23
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    23 As for what you and I were talking of, the Lord is between you and me for ever.

  • 2 Chr 30:8
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    8 Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.

  • 2 Kgs 17:41
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    41 So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.

  • 1 Kgs 8:58
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    58 Turning our hearts to himself, guiding us to go in all his ways, to keep his orders and his laws and his decisions, which he gave to our fathers.

  • Jer 42:5
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    5 Then they said to Jeremiah, May the Lord be a true witness against us in good faith, if we do not do everything which the Lord your God sends you to say to us.

  • Josh 24:16
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    16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

  • Deut 4:10
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    10 That day when you were waiting before the Lord your God in Horeb, and the Lord said to me, Make all the people come together, so that hearing my words they may go in fear of me all the days of their life on earth and give this teaching to their children.

  • 2 Chr 29:6
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    6 For our fathers have done evil, sinning in the eyes of the Lord our God, and have given him up, turning away their faces from the house of the Lord, and turning their backs on him.