Joshua 22:10-19

10The 2½ tribes came to Geliloth, near the Jordan River, in Canaan. They built a big altar there, beside the river.

11The other Israelites heard this news: ‘Those 2½ tribes have built an altar on the border of Canaan, at Geliloth! They have built it on the west side of the Jordan River, our side!’

12So the Israelites came together at Shiloh to fight against the other 2½ tribes.

13The Israelites sent Phinehas, son of Eleazar the priest, to the land of Gilead. He went to meet with the 2½ tribes, Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh.

1410 Israelite leaders went with him, one man from each of their tribes. Each man was a leader of his own clan.

15The Israelite leaders arrived in the land of Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh, in Gilead.

16They said, ‘You have not obeyed the Lord, Israel's God. All the people of Israel agree that you have done a bad thing. You have turned against the Lord. You should not have built this altar for yourselves.

17We did something very bad at Peor. Even now, we have not made it right. The Lord brought a bad disease to punish us as his people.

18Now you are doing another bad thing. You no longer want to obey the Lord. You are turning against him today. So tomorrow the Lord may punish us all!

19If your land here in Gilead is unclean, come back across the river to the Lord's own land. You can come and live among us, in the land where the Lord's tabernacle is. But do not turn against the Lord or against us. Do not build an altar for yourselves. The Lord our God already has his altar here.