BRAGADAYJAH 674
Now when the children of Israel heard that the children of
Reuben and of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh had built an alter over
against the land of Canaan near the Jordan at the very spot where the children
of Israel had themselves crossed over, to worship contrary to the commandment
of their God, they sent unto them Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and
with him ten princes for each house, a prince of the head of the house of the
children of Israel among the thousands of Israel. And they came to the children
of Reuben, of God and the half house of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said
to them. “Thus speak the whole
congregation of the children of Israel unto you, What trespass is this you have
committed against the Lord God of Israel to turn away from worshipping the Lord
and have built an altar in disobedience to the command of the Lord your
God. Is the iniquity of Peor too little from
us, from which we are not cleansed until this day although there was a plague
in the congregation of the Lord?”
Explain, therefore why you have turned away from the Lord. Unless you
turn away from your idolatry this day and turn to the Lord He will be angry
with all Israel by tomorrow.
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