The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOS 22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say
to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again,
Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not
for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us
and you.
JOS 22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn
this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings,
for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our
God that is before his tabernacle.
JOS 22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him,
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