Joshua 22:17

22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord. ¹ 

Joshua 22:23

22:23 If we have built ²  an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the Lord by making ³  burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering ⁴  tokens of peace ⁵  on it, the Lord himself will punish us. ⁶ 

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¹ tn Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly of the Lord.”

² tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”

³ tn Heb “or if to offer up.”

⁴ tn Heb “or if to make.”

⁵ tn Or “peace offerings.”

⁶ tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”