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22 “Yahweh, God of gods! Yahweh, God of gods knows. And let Israel itself know, if it was in rebellion or treachery against Yahweh, do not spare us this day 23 for building for ourselves an altar to turn away from Yahweh, or if it was to offer burnt offerings,[a] grain offerings,[b] or fellowship offerings on it, may Yahweh himself take vengeance. 24 But in fact, we have done this because of anxiety, because of a reason, saying, ‘In the future your children may say to our children, ‘What is the relationship between you and Yahweh the God of Israel?[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 22:23 Hebrew “offering”
  2. Joshua 22:23 Hebrew “offering”
  3. Joshua 22:24 Literally “What is to you and to Yahweh the God of Israel”