Joshua 4:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Joshua said to them: “Go to the Jordan riverbed in front of the ark of the Lord, your God; lift to your shoulders one stone apiece, so that they will equal in number the tribes of the Israelites.

Cross References

Genesis 31:46

Jacob said to his kinsmen, “Gather stones.” So they got stones and made a mound; and they ate there at the mound.

Exodus 24:4

Moses then wrote down all the words of the Lord and, rising early in the morning, he built at the foot of the mountain an altar and twelve sacred stones for the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:2

On the day you cross the Jordan into the land which the Lord, your God, is giving you, set up some large stones and coat them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 9:1

Hear, O Israel! You are now about to cross the Jordan to enter in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than yourselves, having large cities fortified to the heavens,

Joshua 22:10

When the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh came to the region of the Jordan in the land of Canaan, they built an altar there at the Jordan, an impressively large altar.

Joshua 4:4

Summoning the twelve men he had selected from among the Israelites, one from each tribe,

Joshua 4:6

In the future, these are to be a sign among you. When your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’