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Joshua 4 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Twelve Memorial Stones from the Jordan

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:1 - When all the nation had finished passing over the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:2 - “Take twelve men from the people, from each tribe a man,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:3 - and command them, saying, ‘Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests’ feet stood firmly, and bring them over with you and lay them down in the place where you lodge tonight.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:4 - Then Joshua called the twelve men from the people of Israel, whom he had appointed, a man from each tribe.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:6 - that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:7 - then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be to the people of Israel a memorial forever.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:8 - And the people of Israel did just as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the people of Israel, just as the LORD told Joshua. And they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down[fn] there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:9 - And Joshua set up[fn] twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:10 - For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:11 - And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:12 - The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:13 - About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:14 - On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:15 - And the LORD said to Joshua,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:16 - “Command the priests bearing 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, “Come up out of the Jordan.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:18 - And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:19 - The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:20 - And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:22 - then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel passed over 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 passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 4:24 - so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever.”[fn]
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Joshua Chapter 4 — Additional Translations:

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