Joshua 4:8

New American Bible - revised edition

The twelve Israelites did as Joshua had commanded: they took up twelve stones from the Jordan riverbed as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for each of the tribes of the Israelites. They carried them along to the camp site, and there they placed them.

Cross References

Exodus 12:28

and the Israelites went and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. Death of the Firstborn.

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.

Joshua 4:20

At Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been taken from the Jordan,

Joshua 4:9

Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the Jordan riverbed on the spot where the priests stood who were carrying the ark of the covenant. They are there to this day.