Joshua 4:21 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

²¹ At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise the second time the children of Israel.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And he said to the Israelites, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, What do these stones mean?

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²¹ He said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask their parents, ‘What about these stones?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And he said to the sons of Israel: "When your sons will question their fathers, tomorrow, and they will say to them, 'What do these stones mean to you?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers, to-morrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?

Joshua 4:21 Cross References

Exodus 13:14

7 And when Pharao had sent out the people, the Lord led them not by the way of the land of the Philistines which is near: thinking lest perhaps they would repent, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Egypt.

Joshua 4:20

Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children of Israel.

Joshua 4:22

He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 4:6

1 And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the Lord passed over, and the priests went before the people.