Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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Chap. XXII.
note
The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half Mana&esset;es returne to their posse&esset;ions. note
10. VVho building an altar by the side of Iordan, the other tribes suspect
that they wil make a schisme, and therfore purpose to fight against them.
13. But first sending an ambassage to admonish them, 21. they answer that
they made not an altar, for sacrifice, but only for a monument, that notwithst&abar;ding
they dwel on the other side of Iordan, yet they are of the same
people of God, 30. wherwith al Israel is satisfied.
1 The same time Iosue called the Rubenites, and Gadites,
and the halfe tribe of Manasses,
2 and said to them:
You haue done al thinges that Moyses the seruant of our
Lord c&obar;manded you: me also haue you obeyed in al thinges,
3 neither haue you left your brethren a long time, vntil this
present day, keeping the commandement of our Lord your
God.
4 Therfore because our Lord your God hath geuen
your brethren quietnes and peace, as he promised: returne,
and goe into your tabernacles, and to the land of your possession,
which Moyses the seruant of our Lord deliuered to
you beyond Iordan:
5 notealwayes so that you keepe attentiuely,
and in worke fulfil the commandement, and the law
which Moyses the seruant of our Lord commanded you, that
you loue our Lord your God, and walke in al his wayes, and
obserue al his commandementes, & cleaue to him, and serue
him in al your hart, and in al your soule.
6 And Iosue note blessed
them, and dismissed them. Who returned into their tabernacles.
7 And to the halfe tribe of Manasses Moyses had geuen
possession in Basan: and therfore to the halfe that remayned,
Iosue gaue a lotte among the rest of their brethren
beyond Iordan at the West side. And when he dismissed them
into their tabernacles, & had blessed them,
8 he said to them:
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Suspition of schisme satisfied.
In much substance and riches returne to your seates, with
siluer and gold, brasse and yron, and varietie of rayment: diuide
the praye of your enemies with your brethren.
9 And
the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the halfe
tribe of Manasses returned, and went from the children of
Israel in Silo, which is situated in Chanaan, to enter into
Galaad the Land of their possession, which they had obteyned
according to the commandement of our Lord in the hand
of Moyses.
10 And when they were come to the litle banckes
of Iordan, into the Land of Chanaan, they built beside Iordan
an altar of an infinite greatnes.
11 noteWhich thing when
the children of Israel had heard, and certaine messengers had
reported to them that the children of Ruben, and Gad, and
the halfe tribe of Manasses had builded an altar in the Land
of Chanaan, vpon the litle banckes of Iordan, against the
children of Israel:
12 they assembled al in Silo, that they might
goe vp, and fight against them.
13 And in the meane time they
sent to them into the Land of Galaad, Phinees the sonne of
Eleazar the priest,
14 and ten princes with him, one of euerie
tribe.
15 Who came to the children of Ruben, and Gad, and
the halfe tribe of Manasses into the Land of Galaad, and said
to them:
16 This message doth al the people of our Lord send
to you: What is this transgression? Why haue you forsaken
our Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and
reuolting from the worshippe of him?
17 Is it a smale thing
to you that note you sinned in Beelphegor, and vntil this present
day the spotte of this abomination abideth in vs? and
many of the people fel dead.
18 And you to day haue forsaken
our Lord, and to morow his wrath wil rage note against al Israel.
19 But if you thinke the land of your possession to be vncleane,
passe to the Land, wherein is the tabernacle of our
Lord, and dwel among vs: only that you depart not from
our Lord, and from our companie, an altar being built beside
the altar of our Lord God.
20 Did not Achan the sonne of
Zare transgress the commandement of our Lord, and his
wrath lay vpon al the people of Israel? And he was one man,
and I would he alone had perished in his wicked fact.
21 And
the children of Ruben, and Gad, and of the halfe tribe of
Manasses answered the princes of the legacie of Israel:
22 The
most mightie God our Lord, The most mightie God our Lord,
him selfe knoweth, and Israel together shal vnderstand: If
-- --
Suspition of schisme satisfied.
with the mind of preuarication we haue erected this altar, let
him not keepe vs, but punish vs presently:
23 and if we did
it with that minde, that we might lay vpon it holocaustes,
and sacrifice, and pacifique victimes, let him selfe examine it
and iudge:
24 and not rather with that meaning and deliberation,
that we said: To morrow your children wil say to our
children: What haue you to doe with our Lord the God of
Israel?
25 Our Lord hath put a border betwen vs and you,
O ye children of Ruben, and children of Gad, the riuer Iordan:
and therfore you haue no part in our Lord. And by this
occasion your children shal auert our children from the feare
of our Lord. We therfore thought it better,
26 and said: Let
vs build vs an altar, note not for holocaustes, nor to offer victimes,
27 but for a testimonie betwen vs and you, and our issue
and your progenie, that we may serue our Lord, and it may
be our right to offer both holocaustes, and victimes, and pacifique
hostes: and that your children to morrow say not to
our children: You haue no part in our Lord.
28 And if they
wil say so, they shal answer them: Behold the altar of our
Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocaustes, nor for
sacrifice, but for our testimonie and yours.
29 God saue vs
from this abomination that we should reuolt from our Lord,
and leaue his steppes, erecting an altar to offer holocaustes,
and sacrifices, and victimes, beside the altar of our Lord God,
which is erected before his tabernacle.
30 Which thinges
being heard, Phinees the priest, and the princes of the legacie,
which were with him, were pacified: and they admitted
most willingly the wordes of the children of Ruben, & Gad.
and of the halfe tribe of Manasses.
31 And Phinees the priest
the sonne of Eleazar said to them: Now we know that our
Lord is with vs, because you are not culpable of this preuarication,
and haue deliuered the children of Israel from the
hand of our Lord.
32 And he returned with the princes from
the children of Ruben and Gad, out of the Land of Galaad,
into the Land of Chanaan, to the children of Israel, and reported
to them.
33 And the saying pleased al that heard it. And
the children of Israel praysed God, and they did no more say,
that they would goe vp against them, and fight, and destroy
the Land of their possession.
34 And the children of Ruben,
& the children of Gad called the altar, which they had built,
Our testimonie, that our Lord he is God.
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Iosue exhorteth the people.
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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