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Joshua 22:24
"And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?"
"In reply the accused explained that their altar was not intended for sacrifice, but simply as a witness that, although separated by the river, they were of the same faith as their brethren in Canaan. They had feared that in future years their children might be excluded from the tabernacle, as having no part in Israel. Then this altar, erected after the pattern of the altar of the Lord at Shiloh, would be a witness that its builders were also worshipers of the living God. PP 519.1"
The EGW passage directly echoes the concern expressed in Joshua 22:24 about future generations questioning the relationship of the tribes east of the Jordan with the Lord. The phrasing is very similar.