Joshua 4:21 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²¹ saying to the Israelites, “When your children ask their parents in time to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’

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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

When in the future your child asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall answer, ‘By strength of hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.

Joshua 4:20

Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,

Joshua 4:22

then you shall let your children know, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground.’

Joshua 4:6

so that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’