1Then Yeshua called the children of Rubil and to the children of Gad and to half of the tribe of Menasheh 2And he said to them: “You have kept everything that Moshe the Servant of LORD JEHOVAH said to you and you have listened to my voice in everything that I have commanded you 3And you have not forsaken your brethren now for many days until today, and you have kept the commandments of LORD JEHOVAH your God 4And now, behold, LORD JEHOVAH God has given rest to your brethren, just as he said to them, therefore, return and go to your cities and the land of your inheritance that Moshe the Servant of LORD JEHOVAH gave to you at the crossing of Jordan from the east 5Only be very aware and perform the commandments and the Law that Moshe the Servant of LORD JEHOVAH commanded you, to love LORD JEHOVAH your God and to keep his commandments and to cling to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul!” 6And Yeshua blessed them and he sent them away and they went to their cities

7And to half of the tribe of Menasheh Moshe gave in Mathnin and to half of it Yeshua gave with their brethren at the crossing of Jordan from the west and Yeshua sent them and they went to their cities and he blessed them 8And he said to them: “Return to your cities and the land of your inheritance with many riches and with very abundant property in silver and in gold, and in brass and in iron, and with very abundant clothing, and divide the loot of your enemies with your brethren” 9And they returned, and the children of Rubil and the children of Gad and the half of the tribe of Menasheh went from the presence of the children of Israel from Shiloh, of those in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gelad, to the land of their inheritance which they inherited in it, because of the word of the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH by the agency of Moshe

10And they came to Galgala that is on the side of the Jordan, of those in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Rubil and the sons of Gad and half of the tribe of Menasheh built there an altar on the side of the Jordan an altar of great spectacle 11And the children of Israel heard that the children of Rubil and the children of Gad and half of the tribe of Menasheh had built an altar next to the land of Canaan in Galgala, that is on the side of the Jordan, in the land of the children of Israel 12And all of the assembly of the children of Israel gathered to Shiloh to go up against them to battle

13And the sons of Israel sent Phinkhas, son of Eliazer the Priest, to the sons of Rubil and to the sons of Gad and to the half of the tribe of Menasheh, to the land of Gelad 14And ten Princes with him, one great man from all the tribes of Israel, and those men were the Commanders of the armies of Israel 15And they came to the sons of Rubil and to the sons of Gad and to the half of the tribe of Menasheh in the land of Gelad, and they spoke with them and they said to them 16“Thus says all of the assembly of LORD JEHOVAH: ‘What is this treachery that you have committed against the God of Israel and you have turned away from LORD JEHOVAH and you have built for yourselves an altar that you would separate from the worship of LORD JEHOVAH?’ 17Is not the sin of Peor enough for us, for we are not purged from it until today, and there was a plague in the assembly of LORD JEHOVAH? 18And you, when you have turned back today from the worship of LORD JEHOVAH tomorrow, there is anger on all of the assembly of Israel 19However if the land of your inheritance is polluted, cross over to the land of the inheritance of LORD JEHOVAH where the tabernacle of LORD JEHOVAH dwells, and possess with us and you shall not despise the worship of LORD JEHOVAH and you shall not rebel against us, because you have built for yourselves an altar apart from the altar of LORD JEHOVAH the God of Israel 20Have you not seen Akur son of Karmi, when he was lusting and he took from what was banned, and there was wrath upon all of the assembly of Israel, and he was one man, and we all were devoured in his sin?’”

21And the sons of Rubil and the sons of Gad and the half of the tribe of Menasheh answered and they spoke with Phinkhas, son of Eliazer the Priest, and with the Captains of the armies of Israel, and they said to them: 22“LORD JEHOVAH is God of gods. The God of gods is LORD JEHOVAH, and he is our God and he knows Israel, and he knows us that if we depart from him and if we betray him in the worship of LORD JEHOVAH, we do so; he will not save us today! 23If we build for ourselves an altar that we would turn from the worship of LORD JEHOVAH or that we would offer on it sacrifices or we serve another, LORD JEHOVAH shall be avenged against us 24But if it was from his awe we served him, this one and that one of your children will not say tomorrow to our children: ‘What do you have to do with LORD JEHOVAH God of Israel, children of Rubil and children of Gad? 25Behold LORD JEHOVAH put the border between us and you, this Jordan, therefore there is not a portion for you in LORD JEHOVAH the God of Israel, and your children of tomorrow shall prevent our children that they would not worship LORD JEHOVAH”

26Because of this we said, ‘We shall make for ourselves a place and we shall build for ourselves an altar, not for sacrifice and not for offering 27But for a testimony between us and you and between our generations after us, and us and our generations after us; we perform the service of LORD JEHOVAH before him in our offerings and in our sacrifices and in our gifts, in the place where LORD JEHOVAH has chosen to encamp his name, and your children of tomorrow will not say to our children: ‘You have no part in LORD JEHOVAH!’ 28And we said, “Whenever they have spoken to us and to our generations of tomorrow, they will say to them: ‘See the likeness of the altar of LORD JEHOVAH that our fathers have made, not for burnt offerings peace and not for sacrifices, but that there will be a witness between us and you’ 29God forbid us that we would reject the worship of LORD JEHOVAH and we would turn from the awe of LORD JEHOVAH and that we would build for ourselves an altar for burnt peace offering or for an offering or for a sacrifice apart from the altar of LORD JEHOVAH God of Israel that is in front of his Tabernacle!”

30And Phinkhas son of Eliazer the Priest and the Princes of the assembly the Heads of the armies of Israel who were with him heard the words that the sons of Rubil heard, and the sons of Gad and half of the tribe of Menasheh, and they were beautiful in their eyes 31And Phinkhas, son of Eliazer the Priest, said to the sons of Rubil and to the sons of Gad and to the sons of Manasheh: “Today we know that LORD JEHOVAH is in our midst, that you have not lied this lie to LORD JEHOVAH, therefore you have delivered the children of Israel that the hand of LORD JEHOVAH will not be against them for rage”

32And Phinkhas son of Eliazer the Priest and the Princes of his people returned from the presence of the children of Rubil and from the presence of the children of Gad, and Manasheh from the land of Gelad to the land of Canaan to the children of Israel, and they brought them an answer 33And the answer was beautiful in the eyes of the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God and they said that they would not go up against them for battle for the destruction of the land of the children of Rubil, and of the children of Gad, and of the children of Manasheh who were dwelling in it 34And the children of Rubil and the children of Gad and the children of Manasheh called the altar that they had made the Altar of the Testimony, because the Testimony was among them, and LORD JEHOVAH is The Only God