Joshua 4:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

and told them: Go to the middle of the river bed where the sacred chest is, and pick up a large rock. Carry it on your shoulder to our camp. There are twelve of you, so there will be one rock for each tribe.

Cross References

Genesis 31:46

he told his men to get some more rocks and pile them up next to it. Then Jacob and Laban ate a meal together beside the rocks.

Exodus 24:4

Then Moses wrote down what the LORD had said. The next morning Moses got up early. He built an altar at the foot of the mountain and set up a large stone for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:2

Soon you will enter the land that the LORD your God is giving to you. He is the God your ancestors worshipped, and he has promised that this land is rich with milk and honey. After you cross the River Jordan, go to Mount Ebal. Set up large slabs of stone, then cover them with white plaster and write on them a copy of these laws.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Israel, listen to me! You will soon cross the River Jordan and go into the land to force out the nations that live there. They are more powerful than you are, and the walls around their cities reach to the sky.

Joshua 22:10

The tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh reached the western side of the Jordan valley and built a huge altar there beside the river. When the rest of the Israelites heard what these tribes had done,

Joshua 4:4

Joshua chose twelve men; he called them together,

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.