Old Testament · SCRIPTURE
Joshua 4:6
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to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
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That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?
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that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in the future, saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?’
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that this may be a sign among you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
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Joshua 4
4 So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,
5 and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
6 to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
7 you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
8 Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
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