여호수아 22

1그 때에 여호수아가 르우벤 사람과 갓 사람과 므낫세 반 지파를 불러서 2그들에게 이르되 여호와의 종 모세가 너희에게 명한 것을 너희가 다 지키며 또 내가 너희에게 명한 모든 일에 내 말을 너희가 청종하여 3오늘날까지 날이 오래도록 너희가 너희 형제를 떠나지 아니하고 오직 너희 하나님 여호와의 명하신 그 책임을 지키도다 4이제는 너희 하나님 여호와꼐서 이미 말씀하신 대로 너희 형제에게 안식을 주셨으니 그런즉 이제 너희는 여호와의 종 모세가 요단 저편에서 너희에게 준 소유지로 가서 너희의 장막으로 돌아가되 5크게 삼가 여호와의 종 모세가 너희에게 명한 명령과 율법을 행하여 너희 하나님 여호와를 사랑하고 그 모든 길로 행하며 그 계명을 지켜 그에게 친근히 하고 너희 마음을 다하며 성품을 다하여 그를 섬길지니라 하고 6여호수아가 그들에게 축복하여 보내매 그들이 자기 장막으로 갔더라 7므낫세 반 지파에게는 모세가 바산에서 기업을 주었고 기타 반 지파에게는 여호수아가 요단 이편 서편에서 그 형제 중에서 기업을 준지라 여호수아가 그들을 그 장막으로 돌려보낼 때에 그들에게 축복하고 8일러 가로되 너희는 많은 재산과 심히 많은 가축과 은, 금, 동, 철과 심히 많은 의복을 가지고 너희의 장막으로 돌아가서 너희 대적에게서 탈취한 것을 너희 형제와 나눌지니라 하매 9르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 반 지파가 가나안 땅 실로에서 이스라엘 자손을 떠나 여호와께서 모세로 명하신 대로 얻은 땅 곧 그 소유지 길르앗으로 가니라 10르우벤 자손과 므낫세 반 지파가 가나안 땅 요단 언덕 가에 이르자 거기서 요단 가에 단을 쌓았는데 볼만한 큰 단이었더라 11이스라엘 자손이 들은즉 이르기를 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 반 지파가 가나안 땅의 맨 앞편 요단 언덕 가 이스라엘 자손에게 속한 편에 단을 쌓았다 하는지라 12이스라엘 자손이 이를 듣자 곧 이스라엘 자손의 온 회중이 실로에 모여서 그들과 싸우러 가려하니라 13이스라엘 자손이 제사장 엘르아살의 아들 비느하스를 길르앗 땅으로 보내어 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 반 지파를 보게 하되 14이스라엘 각 지파에서 한 방백씩 열 방백을 그와 함께 하게 하니 그들은 각기 이스라엘 천만인 중 족속의 두령이라 15그들이 길르앗 땅에 이르러 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 반 지파에게 나아가서 그들에게 말하여 가로되 16여호와의 온 회중이 말하기를 너희가 어찌하여 이스라엘 하나님께 범죄하여 오늘날 여호와를 좇는 데서 떠나서 자기를 위하여 단을 쌓아 여호와를 거역하고자 하느냐 17브올의 죄악으로 인하여 여호와의 회중에 재앙이 내렸으나 오늘날까지 우리가 그 죄에서 정결함을 얻지 못하였거늘 그 죄악이 우리에게 부족하여서 18오늘날 너희가 돌이켜 여호와를 좇지 않고자 하느냐 너희가 오늘날 여호와를 배역하면 내일은 그가 이스라엘 온 회중에게 진노하시리라 19그런데 너희 소유지가 만일 깨끗지 아니하거든 여호와의 성막이 있는 여호와의 소유지로 건너와 우리 중에서 소유를 취할 것이니라 오직 우리 하나님 여호와의 단 외에 다른 단을 쌓음으로 여호와께 패역하지 말며 우리에게도 패역하지 말라 20세라의 아들 아간이 바친 물건에 대하여 범죄하므로 이스라엘 온 회중에 진노가 임하지 아니하였었느냐 그 죄악으로 망한 자가 그 사람뿐이 아니었느니라 21르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 반 지파가 이스라엘 천만인의 두령에게 대답하여 가로되 22전능하신 자 하나님 여호와, 전능하신 자 하나님 여호와께서 아시나니 이스라엘도 장차 알리라 이 일이 만일 여호와께 패역함이거나 범죄함이거든 주는 오늘날 우리를 구원치 마시옵소서 23우리가 단을 쌓은 것이 돌이켜 여호와를 좇지 아니하려 함이거나 혹시 그 위에 번제나 소제를 드리려 함이거나 혹시 화목제물을 드리려 함이어든 여호와는 친히 벌하시옵소서 24우리가 목적이 있어서 주의하고 이같이 하였노라 곧 생각하기를 후일에 너희 자손이 우리 자손에게 말하여 이르기를 너희가 이스라엘 하나님 여호와와 무슨 상관이 있느냐 25너희 르우벤 자손 갓 자손아 여호와께서 우리와 너희 사이에 요단으로 경계를 삼으셨나니 너희는 여호와께 분의가 없느니라 하여 너희 자손이 우리 자손으로 여호와 경외하기를 그치게 할까 하여 26우리가 말하기를 우리가 이제 한 단 쌓기를 예비하자 하였노니 이는 번제를 위함도 아니요 다른 제사를 위함도 아니라 27우리가 여호와 앞에서 우리 번제와 우리 다른 제사와 우리 화목제로 섬기는 것을 우리와 너희 사이와 우리의 후대 사이에 증거가 되게 할 뿐으로서 너희 자손으로 후일에 우리 자손에게 이르기를 너희는 여호와께 분의가 없다 못하게 하려 함이로라 28우리가 말하였거니와 만일 그들이 후일에 우리에게나 우리 후대에게 이같이 말하면 우리가 말하기를 우리 열조가 지은 여호와의 단 모형을 보라 이는 번제를 위한 것도 아니요 다른 제사를 위한 것도 아니라 오직 우리와 너희 사이에 증거만 되게 할뿐이라 29우리가 번제나 소제나 다른 제사를 위하여 우리 하나님 여호와의 성막 앞에 있는 단 외에 단을 쌓음으로 여호와께 패역하고 오늘날 여호와를 좇음에서 떠나려 함은 결단코 아니니라 하리라 30제사장 비느하스와 그와 함께한 회중의 방백 곧 이스라엘 천만인의 두령들이 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 자손의 말을 듣고 좋게 여긴지라 31제사장 엘르아살의 아들 비느하스가 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손과 므낫세 자손에게 이르되 우리가 오늘날 여호와께서 우리 중에 계신줄을 아노니 이는 너희가 이 죄를 여호와께 범치 아니하였음이라 너희가 이제 이스라엘 자손을 여호와의 손에서 건져내었느니라 하고 32제사장 엘르아살의 아들 비느하스와 방백들이 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손을 떠나 길르앗 땅에서 가나안 땅에 돌아와 이스라엘 자손에게 이르러 회보하매 33그 일이 이스라엘 자손을 즐겁게 한지라 이스라엘 자손이 하나님을 찬송하고 르우벤 자손과 갓 자손의 거하는 땅에 가서 싸워 그것을 멸하자 하는 말을 다시 하지 아니하였더라 34르우벤 자손과 갓 자손이 그 단을 엣이라 칭하였으니 우리 사이에 이 단은 여호와께서 하나님이 되시는 증거라 함이었더라

1Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. 3You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of Yahweh your God. 4Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. 5Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” 6So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents. 7Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them, 8and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.” 9The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by Moses. 10When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look at. 11The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.” 12When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war. 13The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, 14and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were everyone of them head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel. 15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, 16“Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? 17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, 18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. 19However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh’s tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God. 20Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone in his iniquity.’” 21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel, 22“The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don’t save us this day), 23that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings, let Yahweh himself require it. 24“If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel? 25For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in Yahweh.”’ So your children might make our children cease from fearing Yahweh. 26“Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; 27but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’ 28“Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’ 29“Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tabernacle!” 30When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well. 31Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that Yahweh is in the midst of us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh.” 32Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. 33The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived. 34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”

1Toen riep Jozua de Rubenieten, en de Gadieten, en den halven stam van Manasse, 2En hij zeide tot hen: Gijlieden hebt onderhouden alles, wat u Mozes, de knecht des HEEREN, geboden heeft; en gij zijt mijner stem gehoorzaam geweest in alles, wat ik u geboden heb. 3Gij hebt uw broederen niet verlaten nu langen tijd, tot op dezen dag toe; maar gij hebt waargenomen de onderhouding der geboden van den HEERE, uw God. 4En nu, de HEERE, uw God, heeft uw broederen rust gegeven, gelijk Hij hun toegezegd had; keert dan nu wederom, en gaat gij naar uw tenten, naar het land uwer bezitting, hetwelk u Mozes, de knecht des HEEREN, gegeven heeft op gene zijde van de Jordaan. 5Alleenlijk neemt naarstiglijk waar te doen het gebod en de wet, die u Mozes, de knecht des HEEREN, geboden heeft, dat gij den HEERE, uw God, liefhebt, en dat gij wandelt in al Zijn wegen, en Zijn geboden houdt, en Hem aanhangt, en dat gij Hem dient met uw ganse hart en met uw ganse ziel. 6Alzo zegende hen Jozua, en hij liet hen gaan; en zij gingen naar hun tenten. 7Want aan de helft van den stam van Manasse had Mozes een erfdeel gegeven in Bazan; maar aan de andere helft van denzelven gaf Jozua een erfdeel bij hun broederen, aan deze zijde van de Jordaan westwaarts. Verder ook als Jozua hen liet trekken naar hun tenten, zo zegende hij hen. 8En hij sprak tot hen, zeggende: Keert weder tot uw tenten met veel rijkdom, en met zeer veel vee, met zilver, en met goud, en met koper, en met ijzer, en met zeer veel klederen; deelt den roof uwer vijanden met uw broederen. 9Alzo keerden de kinderen van Ruben, en de kinderen van Gad, en de halve stam van Manasse wederom, en togen van de kinderen Israels, van Silo, dat in het land Kanaan is, om te gaan naar het land van Gilead, naar het land hunner bezitting, in hetwelk zij bezitters gemaakt waren, naar den mond des HEEREN, door den dienst van Mozes. 10Toen zij kwamen aan de grenzen van de Jordaan, die in het land Kanaan zijn, zo bouwden de kinderen van Ruben, en de kinderen van Gad, en de halve stam van Manasse aldaar een altaar aan de Jordaan, een altaar groot in het aanzien. 11En de kinderen Israels hoorden zeggen: Ziet, de kinderen van Ruben, en de kinderen van Gad, en de halve stam van Manasse hebben een altaar gebouwd, tegenover het land Kanaan, aan de grenzen van de Jordaan, aan de zijde der kinderen Israels. 12Als de kinderen Israels dit hoorden, zo verzamelde de ganse vergadering der kinderen Israels te Silo, dat zij tegen hen optogen met een heir. 13En de kinderen Israels zonden aan de kinderen van Ruben, en aan de kinderen van Gad, en aan den halven stam van Manasse, in het land Gilead, Pinehas, den zoon van Eleazar, den priester; 14En tien vorsten met hem, van ieder vaderlijk huis een vorst, uit al de stammen van Israel; en zij waren een ieder een hoofd van het huis hunner vaderen over de duizenden van Israel. 15Toen zij tot de kinderen van Ruben, en tot de kinderen van Gad, en tot den halven stam van Manasse kwamen, in het land Gilead, zo spraken zij met hen, zeggende: 16Alzo spreekt de ganse gemeente des HEEREN: Wat overtreding is dit, waarmede gijlieden overtreden hebt tegen den God van Israel, heden afkerende van achter den HEERE, mits dat gij een altaar voor u gebouwd hebt, om heden tegen den HEERE wederspannig te zijn? 17Is ons de ongerechtigheid van Peor te weinig, van dewelke wij niet gereinigd zijn tot op dezen dag, hoewel de plaag in de vergadering des HEEREN geweest is? 18Dewijl gij u heden van achter den HEERE afkeert, het zal dan geschieden, als gij heden wederspannig zijt tegen den HEERE, zo zal Hij Zich morgen grotelijks vertoornen tegen de ganse gemeente van Israel. 19Maar toch, indien het land uwer bezitting onrein is, komt over in het land van de bezitting des HEEREN, waar de tabernakel des HEEREN woont, en neemt bezitting in het midden van ons; maar zijt niet wederspannig tegen den HEERE, en zijt ook niet wederspannig tegen ons, een altaar voor u bouwende, behalve het altaar van den HEERE, onzen God. 20Heeft niet Achan, de zoon van Zerah, overtreding begaan met het verbannene, en kwam er niet een verbolgenheid over de ganse vergadering van Israel? En die man stierf niet alleen in zijn ongerechtigheid. 21Toen antwoordden de kinderen van Ruben, en de kinderen van Gad, en de halve stam van Manasse, en zij spraken met de hoofden der duizenden van Israel: 22De God der goden, de HEERE, de God der goden, de HEERE, Die weet het; Israel zelf zal het ook weten! Is het door wederspannigheid, of is het door overtreding tegen den HEERE, zo behoudt ons heden niet; 23Dat wij ons een altaar zouden gebouwd hebben, om ons van achter den HEERE af te keren, of om brandoffer en spijsoffer daarop te offeren, of om dankoffer daarop te doen, zo eise het de HEERE. 24En zo wij dit niet uit zorg vanwege deze zaak gedaan hebben, zeggende: Morgen mochten uw kinderen tot onze kinderen spreken, zeggende: Wat hebt gij met den HEERE, den God van Israel, te doen? 25De HEERE heeft immers de Jordaan tot landpale gezet tussen ulieden, gij, kinderen van Ruben, en gij, kinderen van Gad! gij hebt geen deel aan den HEERE. Zo mochten uw kinderen onze kinderen doen ophouden, dat zij den HEERE niet vreesden. 26Daarom zeiden wij: Laat ons toch voor ons maken, bouwende een altaar, niet ten brandoffer, noch ten offer. 27Maar dat het een getuige zij tussen ons en tussen ulieden, en tussen onze geslachten na ons, opdat wij den dienst des HEEREN voor Zijn aangezicht dienen mochten met onze brandofferen, en met onze slachtofferen, en met onze dankofferen; en dat uw kinderen tot onze kinderen morgen niet zeggen: Gijlieden hebt geen deel aan den HEERE. 28Daarom zeiden wij: Wanneer het geschiedt, dat zij morgen alzo tot ons en tot onze geslachten zeggen zullen; zo zullen wij zeggen: Ziet de gedaante van het altaar des HEEREN, hetwelk onze vaderen gemaakt hebben, niet ten brandoffer, noch ten offer; maar het is een getuige tussen ons en tussen ulieden. 29Het zij verre van ons, van ons dat wij zouden wederspannig zijn tegen den HEERE, of dat wij te dezen dage ons van achter den HEERE afkeren zouden, bouwende een altaar ten brandoffer, ten spijsoffer, of ten slachtoffer, behalve het altaar van den HEERE, onzen God, dat voor Zijn tabernakel is. 30Toen de priester Pinehas, en de oversten der vergadering, en de hoofden der duizenden van Israel, die bij hem waren, de woorden hoorden, die de kinderen van Ruben, en de kinderen van Gad, en de kinderen van Manasse gesproken hadden, zo was het goed in hun ogen. 31En Pinehas, de zoon van den priester Eleazar, zeide tot de kinderen van Ruben, en tot de kinderen van Gad, en tot de kinderen van Manasse: Heden weten wij, dat de HEERE in het midden van ons is, dewijl gij deze overtreding tegen den HEERE niet begaan hebt; toen hebt gijlieden de kinderen Israel verlost uit de hand des HEEREN. 32En Pinehas, de zoon van den priester Eleazar, keerde wederom met de oversten van de kinderen van Ruben, en van de kinderen van Gad, uit het land Gilead, naar het land Kanaan, tot de kinderen Israel; en zij brachten hun antwoord weder; 33Het antwoord nu was goed in de ogen van de kinderen Israels, en de kinderen Israels loofden God, en zeiden niet meer van tegen hen op te trekken met een heir, om het land te verderven, waarin de kinderen van Ruben en de kinderen van Gad woonden. 34En de kinderen van Ruben en de kinderen van Gad noemden dat altaar: Dat het een getuige zij tussen ons, dat de HEERE God is.