Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man,

And Joshua said unto them, Go over before the Ark of the Lord your God, even through the midst of Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

That this may be a sign among you, that when your [a]children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What meant you by these stones?

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 4:6 God commandeth that not only we ourselves profit by this wonderful work, but that our posterity may know the cause thereof and glorify his Name.

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