Joshua 4:21

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then Joshua told the people: Years from now your children will ask you why these rocks are here.

Cross References

Exodus 13:14

In the future your children will ask what this ceremony means. Explain it to them by saying, “The LORD used his mighty power to rescue us from slavery in Egypt.

Joshua 4:20

The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument.

Joshua 4:22

Tell them, “The LORD our God dried up the River Jordan so we could walk across. He did the same thing here for us that he did for our people at the Red Sea,

Joshua 4:6

Some day your children will ask, “Why are these rocks here?” Then you can tell them how the water stopped flowing when the chest was being carried across the river. These rocks will always remind our people of what happened here today.