Joshua 4:8

New International Reader's Version

So the Israelites did as Joshua commanded them. They took 12 stones from the middle of the Jordan River. There was one stone for each of the tribes of Israel. It was just as the Lord had told Joshua. The people carried the stones with them to their camp. There they put them down.

Cross References

Exodus 12:28

They did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 24:4

Then Moses wrote down everything the Lord had said. Moses got up early the next morning. He built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He set up 12 stone pillars. They stood for the 12 tribes of Israel.

Joshua 4:20

Joshua set up the 12 stones at Gilgal. They were the ones the people had taken out of the Jordan.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also piled up 12 stones in the middle of the river. He piled them up right where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are still there to this very day.