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Joshua 4 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - And when the people had completely passed over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - Take men from the people, one of each tribe,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - and charge them; and ye shall take out of the midst of Jordan twelve [fn]fit stones, and having carried them across together with yourselves, place them in your camp, where ye shall encamp for the night.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - And Joshua having called twelve men [fn]of distinction among the children of Israel, one of each tribe,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:5 - said to them, Advance before me in the presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the twelve tribes of Israel:
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:6 - that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when thy son asks thee [fn]in future, saying, What are these stones to us?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then thou mayest explain to thy son, saying, The river Jordan was [fn]dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for the children of Israel for ever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - And the children of Israel did so, as the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had completely passed over,) and carried these stones with them into the camp, and laid them down there.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:9 - And Joshua set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there they are to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:10 - And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua had finished all that the Lord commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - And it came to pass when all the people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over, and the stones before them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - And the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed over [fn]armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - Forty thousand [fn]armed for battle went over before the Lord to war, to the city of Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the people of Israel; and they feared him, as they did Moses, as long as he lived.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:15 - And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:17 - And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - And the people went up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Galgala,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:21 - saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22 - Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:23 - when the Lord our God had dried up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us, until we passed over.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - That all the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and that ye might worship the Lord our God in every work.
BES Footnotes
Gr. ready. Heb. הכין. A. V. firm, applied to the foot of the priests.
Gr. of the distinguished, or, illustrious.
Gr. to-morrow.
Gr. failed.
Or, equipped.
Gr. in good order.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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