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Joshua 4 :: Amplified Bible (AMP)

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Memorial Stones from Jordan

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So it was when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - “Take for yourselves the twelve men [chosen] from among the people, one man from each tribe,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - and command them, ‘Pick up for yourselves twelve stones [one each] from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests’ feet are standing firm; carry them over with you and lay them down at the place where you will spend the night tonight.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - and Joshua said to them, “Cross over again to the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:6 - so that this may be a sign among you; when your children ask later, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall say to them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall become a memorial for Israel forever.”

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So the [twelve men chosen from the] sons of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel, just as the LORD had spoken to Joshua; and they carried them over with them to the place where they were spending the night and put them down there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:9 - Then Joshua set up [a second monument of] twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:10 - For the priests who carried the ark were standing in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell the people, in accordance with everything that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried and crossed [the dry riverbed];

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle before the [other] sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - about 40,000 [men] armed and equipped for war crossed for battle before the LORD to the desert plains of Jericho.

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On that day the LORD magnified and exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; so they feared him [with profound awe and reverence], just as they had feared Moses all the days of his life.

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Now the LORD said to Joshua,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - “Order the priests carrying the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:17 - So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, “Come up out of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - When the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of their feet were raised up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks as before.

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Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month and encamped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:21 - He said to the sons of Israel, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22 - then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - “For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you until you crossed over, just as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - so that all the peoples of the earth may know [without any doubt] and acknowledge that the hand of the LORD is mighty and extraordinarily powerful, so that you will fear the LORD your God [and obey and worship Him with profound awe and reverence] forever.”
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