So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

The Israelites received this report:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to<n id="2" /> the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.&#8221;