Joshua 4:8

New Living Translation

So the men did as Joshua had commanded them. They took twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan River, one for each tribe, just as the Lord had told Joshua. They carried them to the place where they camped for the night and constructed the memorial there.

Cross References

Exodus 12:28

So the people of Israel did just as the Lord had commanded through Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 24:4

Then Moses carefully wrote down all the Lord’s instructions. Early the next morning Moses got up and built an altar at the foot of the mountain. He also set up twelve pillars, one for each of the twelve tribes of Israel.

Joshua 4:20

It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up another pile of twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, at the place where the priests who carried the Ark of the Covenant were standing. And they are there to this day.