21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, and say, What mean these stones?

22 Then ye shall show your children, and say, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land:

23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan before you, until ye were gone over as the Lord your God did the red Sea, (A)which he dried up before us, till we were gone over,

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21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’(A) 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’(B) 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea[a] when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 4:23 Or the Sea of Reeds