- "That is why we said, 'Let us get ready and build an altar--but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.'
- On the contrary, it is to be a witness between us and you and the generations that follow, that we will worship the LORD at his sanctuary with our burnt offerings, sacrifices and fellowship offerings. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to ours, 'You have no share in the LORD.'
- "And we said, 'If they ever say this to us, or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the LORD's altar, which our fathers built, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.'
- "Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings and sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God that stands before his tabernacle."
- When Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the community--the heads of the clans of the Israelites--heard what Reuben, Gad and Manasseh had to say, they were pleased.
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- 因此我們說、不如為自己築一座壇、不是為獻燔祭、也不是為獻別的祭、
- 乃是為你我中間、和你我後人中間作證據.好叫我們也在耶和華面前獻燔祭、平安祭、和別的祭事奉他、免得你們的子孫、日後對我們的子孫說、你們與耶和華無分了。
- 所以我們說、日後你們對我們、或對我們的後人這樣說、我們就可以回答說、你們看我們列祖所築的壇、是耶和華壇的樣式、這並不是為獻燔祭、也不是為獻別的祭、乃是為作你我中間的證據。
- 我們在耶和華我們 神帳幕前的壇以外、另築一座壇、為獻燔祭、素祭、和別的祭、悖逆耶和華、今日轉去不跟從他、我們斷沒有這個意思。
- 祭司非尼哈與會中的首領、就是與他同來以色列軍中的統領、聽見流便人、迦得人、瑪拿西人所說的話、就都以為美。
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