Joshua 4:8

Modern English Version

Then the Israelites did as Joshua commanded and picked up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had spoken to Joshua. They crossed over with them to the settlement and set them there.

Cross References

Exodus 12:28

Then the Israelites went and did so. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 24:4

Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar at the foot of the mountain with twelve pillars for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Joshua 4:20

Joshua set up in Gilgal those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.