Then he said to Bnei-Yisrael saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come saying: ‘What are these stones?’
Joshua 4:20 - Tree of Life Version Those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan Joshua set up in Gilgal. American Standard Version (1901) And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. Common English Bible Joshua set up at Gilgal those twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan. Catholic Public Domain Version Likewise, the twelve stones that they had taken up from the channel of the Jordan, Joshua stationed at Gilgal. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal, |
Then he said to Bnei-Yisrael saying, “When your children ask their fathers in time to come saying: ‘What are these stones?’
and command them saying, ‘Take for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the feet of the kohanim are standing firm, and carry them over with you, and deposit them at the place where you will lodge tonight.”
So Bnei-Yisrael did so, as Joshua commanded. They lifted twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as Adonai had said to Joshua, for the number of the tribes of Bnei-Yisrael. Then they carried them over with them to the lodging place and put them down there.