Verse 6
Joshua 4:6
English Revised Version
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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?
Original Language Text
hebrew
לְמַ֗עַן תִּֽהְיֶ֛ה זֹ֥את א֖וֹת בְּ/קִרְבְּ/כֶ֑ם כִּֽי יִשְׁאָל֨וּ/ן בְּנֵי/כֶ֤ם מָחָר֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר מָ֛ה הָ/אֲבָנִ֥ים הָ/אֵ֖לֶּה לָ/כֶֽם
English Translation
So that this shall be a sign among you, when your children ask tomorrow, saying, "What do these stones mean to you?"
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Chapter 4 Context
1
And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Jos...
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Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
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and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the p...
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Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every trib...
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and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God (Elohim) into the midst of...
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6
that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye...
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then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenan...
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And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of...
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9
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests w...
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10
For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that...
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11
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed ove...
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12
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, passed over arm...
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13
about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of J...
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14
On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feare...
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15
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
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Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
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Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
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And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out...
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19
And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on...
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And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
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And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time...
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Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
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For the LORD your God (Elohim) dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed o...
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that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty; that they may fe...
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