Joshua 4:6

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Psalm 44:1

For the leader. A maskil of the Korahites.

Psalm 71:18

Now that I am old and gray, do not forsake me, God, That I may proclaim your might to all generations yet to come, Your power

Exodus 12:14

This day will be a day of remembrance for you, which your future generations will celebrate with pilgrimage to the Lord; you will celebrate it as a statute forever.

Exodus 13:14

And when your son asks you later on, ‘What does this mean?’ you will tell him, ‘With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of a house of slavery.

Exodus 13:9

It will be like a sign on your hand and a reminder on your forehead, so that the teaching of the Lord will be on your lips: with a strong hand the Lord brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 31:13

You must also tell the Israelites: Keep my sabbaths, for that is to be the sign between you and me throughout the generations, to show that it is I, the Lord, who make you holy.

Isaiah 38:19

The living, the living give you thanks, as I do today. Parents declare to their children, O God, your faithfulness.

Isaiah 55:13

In place of the thornbush, the cypress shall grow, instead of nettles, the myrtle. This shall be to the Lord’s renown, as an everlasting sign that shall not fail.

Ezekiel 20:12

I also gave them my sabbaths to be a sign between me and them, to show that it is I, the Lord, who makes them holy.

Ezekiel 20:20

keep holy my sabbaths as a sign between me and you so that you may know that I am the Lord, your God.

Acts 2:39

For the promise is made to you and to your children and to all those far off, whomever the Lord our God will call.”

Deuteronomy 11:19

Teach them to your children, speaking of them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up,

Joshua 22:27

but as witness between us and you and our descendants, that we have the right to provide for the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and communion sacrifices. Now in the future your children cannot say to our children, ‘You have no share in the Lord.’

Joshua 4:21

saying to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’

Joshua 4:5

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.