Joshua 4:3-9

³and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

⁴So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,

⁵and 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,

⁶to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

⁷you 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.”

⁸Thus 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.

⁹Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

— Joshua 4:3-9

(BSB)

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Cross References for Joshua 4:3-9

• Exodus 13:14
• Exodus 12:14
• Joshua 4:21
• Joshua 4:19-20
• 1 Samuel 7:12
• Psalm 44:1
• Deuteronomy 11:19
• Psalm 111:4
• Joshua 4:8
• Deuteronomy 6:20-21

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