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.
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26So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts:
27But 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.
23That 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;
24And 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?
29Never 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.
34And 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.
16This 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?
27And 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.
18That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.
19But 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.
6So 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?
22And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar in Jerusalem?
6For 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.
44Our fathers had the Tent of witness in the waste land, as God gave orders to Moses to make it after the design which he had seen.
5Then 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.
20And 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?
1Then David said, This is the house of the Lord God, and this is the altar for Israel's burned offerings.
7And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?
28And 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;
5Being servants of that which is a copy and an image of the things in heaven, as Moses, when he was about to make the Tent, had special orders from God: for, See, he said, that you make everything like the design which you saw in the mountain.
6You are to make the altar of the Lord your God of uncut stones; offering on it burned offerings to the Lord your God:
3The Lord did not make this agreement with our fathers but with us, who are all living and present here today.
5You are to be responsible for the holy place and the altar, so that wrath may never again come on the children of Israel.
26And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?
5He 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;
6So 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;
25And if you make me an altar of stone do not make it of cut stones: for the touch of an instrument will make it unclean.
10And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.
8And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,
26Take 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.
18And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.
15But with everyone who is here with us today before the Lord our God, as well as with those who are not here:
21In it I have made a place for the ark, in which is the agreement which the Lord made with our fathers, when he took them out of the land of Egypt.
15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.
8The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.
10We have an altar from which those priests who are servants in the Tent may not take food.
4Then the priest will take the basket from your hand and put it down in front of the altar of the Lord your God.
17But we will certainly do every word which has gone out of our mouths, burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her as we did, we and our fathers and our kings and our rulers, in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had food enough and did well and saw no evil.
21And he said to the children of Israel, When your children say to their fathers in time to come, What is the reason for these stones?
40And see that you make them from the design which you saw on the mountain.
10Now 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.
3Which have come to our hearing and our knowledge, as they were given to us by our fathers.
16Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;
9Make the House and everything in it from the designs which I will give you.
29For the House of the Lord, which Moses had made in the waste land, and the altar of burned offerings, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.
2Their altars and their wood pillars under every branching tree, on the high hills and the mountains in the field.
32And that which comes into your minds will never take place; when you say, We will be like the nations, like the families of the countries, servants of wood and stone;
37For seven days you are to make offerings for the altar and make it holy, so that it may become completely holy, and anything touching it will become holy.
28Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.
11And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's.