Joshua 4:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

³ and command them: Take twelve stones  from this place in the middle of the Jordan where the priests  are standing, carry them with you, and set them down at the place where you spend the night.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ And command them, Take twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan from the place where the priests' feet stood firm; carry them over with you and leave them at the place where you lodge tonight.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ and command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.

Common English Bible

³ Command them, ‘Pick up twelve stones from right here in the middle of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests had been firmly planted. Bring them across with you and put them down in the camp where you are staying tonight.’”

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ and instruct them so that they may take from the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood still, twelve very hard stones, which you shall station in the place of the camp, where you will pitch your tents this night."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan, where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your tents this night.

Joshua 4:3 Cross References

Genesis 28:22

This stone that I have set up as a marker will be God’s house, and I will give to you a tenth of all that you give me.’

Luke 19:40

He answered, ‘I tell you, if they were to keep silent, the stones would cry out.’

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, ‘You see this stone #– #it will be a witness against us,  for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God.’

Joshua 3:13

When the feet  of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s water, its water will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a heap.’

Joshua 4:4

So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had selected from the Israelites, one man for each tribe,

Joshua 4:8

The Israelites did just as Joshua had commanded them. The twelve men took stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each of the Israelite tribes, just as the Lord had told Joshua. They carried them to the camp and set them down there.

1 Samuel 7:12

Afterwards, Samuel took a stone and set it upright  between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,  explaining, ‘The Lord has helped us to this point.’