Joshua 4:8
Joshua chapter 4 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
KJV
King James Version · 1611And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
Context
v.7then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
v.8This passage
v.9And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Joshua 4:2
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
- Joshua 1:16
And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go.
- Joshua 4:20
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.