Joshua 4:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Joshua said to them, “Pass on before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites,

Cross References

Genesis 31:46

And Jacob said to his kinsfolk, “Gather stones,” and they took stones and made a heap, and they ate there by the heap.

Exodus 24:4

And Moses wrote down all the words of the Lord. He rose early in the morning, built an altar at the foot of the mountain, and set up twelve pillars, corresponding to the twelve tribes of Israel.

Deuteronomy 27:2

On the day that you cross over the Jordan into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall set up large stones and cover them with plaster.

Deuteronomy 9:1

“Hear, O Israel! You are about to cross the Jordan today, to go in and dispossess nations larger and mightier than you, great cities, fortified to the heavens,

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region near the Jordan that lies in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of great size.

Joshua 4:4

Then Joshua summoned the twelve men whom he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe.

Joshua 4:6

so that this may be a sign among you. When your children ask in time to come, ‘What do those stones mean to you?’