1Then Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] called the Re’uveni [behold, a son!], and the Gadi [my fortune] [A Troop], and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], 2And said unto them, You^2f have kept all that Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: 3You^2f have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. 4And now the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] has given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return you^2f, and get you unto your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) gave you on the other side Yarden [Descender]. 5But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] the servant of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) charged you, to love the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) your God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cling to (hold onto; stick to) him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 6So Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

7Now to the [one] half of the tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters] had given [possession] in Bashan [Fruitful]: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] among their brethren on this side Yarden [Descender] westward. And when Y’hoshua [Yehovah is Salvation] sent them away also unto their tents, then he Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) them, 8And he spoke unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing: divide the spoil (plunder; prey; booty) of your enemies with your brethren. 9And the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] returned, and departed from the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of Shiloh [Place of Rest], which [is] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], to go unto the country of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) by the hand of Moshe [He Who Draws Out Of The Waters].

10And when they came unto the borders of Yarden [Descender], that [are] in the land of Kena’an [Merchant], the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] built there an altar by Yarden [Descender], a great altar to see to. 11And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard say, Behold, the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] have built an altar over against the land of Kena’an [Merchant], in the borders of Yarden [Descender], at the passage of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 12And when the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] heard [of it], the whole congregation of the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] gathered themselves together at Shiloh [Place of Rest], to go up to war against them.

13And the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] sent unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], into the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest, 14And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and each one [was] an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 15And they came unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], unto the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], and they spoke with them, saying, 16Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), What trespass [is] this that you^2f have committed against the God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], to turn away this day from following the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), in that you^2f have built you an altar, that you^2f might rebel this day against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? 17[Is] the iniquity of P’or [Cleft (split hoof; an opening, break or split)] too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), 18But that you^2f must turn away this day from following the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)? and it will be, [seeing] you^2f rebel today against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), that tomorrow he will be exceedingly angry with the whole congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]. 19Yet, if the land of your possession [be] unclean, [then] pass you^2f over unto the land of the possession of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), wherein the LORD-Yehovah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]. 20Did not ‘Akhan [Troubler] the son of Zerach [Rising] commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

21Then the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the half tribe of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], 22God-El [The Powerful Living Word]! God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered]! LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-El [The Powerful Living Word]! God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] is LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate)! He knows, and Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), don’t save today! 23That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) himself require [it]; 24And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have you^2f to do with the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]? 25For the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has made Yarden [Descender] a border between us and you, you^2f children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort]; you^2f have no part in the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: 27But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You^2f have no part in the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate). 28Therefore 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-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you. 29God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] forbid that we should rebel against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and turn this day from following the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) our God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] that [is] before his tabernacle.

30And when Pinchas [mouth of brass] the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] which [were] with him, heard the words that the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] and the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget] spoke, it pleased them. 31And Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest said unto the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and to the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], and to the children of M’nasheh [Causing to Forget], This day we perceive that the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] among us, because you^2f have not committed this trespass against the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate): now you^2f have delivered the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] out of the hand of the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).

32And Pinchas [mouth of brass] the son of El’azar [God has helped] the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son], and from the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort], out of the land of Gil’ad [Rocky Region], unto the land of Kena’an [Merchant], to the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and brought them word again. 33And the thing pleased the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]; and the people of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God] Blessed (Favored by God; happy; prosperous) God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered], and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] dwelt. 34And the children of Re’uven [Behold a Son] and the children of Gad [Good Fortune with Troublesome Effort] called the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD-Yehovah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] God-Elohim (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].