Joshua 4:8

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Israelites did as Joshua commanded. They took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord had told Joshua, carried them over with them to the place where they camped, and laid them down there.

Cross References

Exodus 12:28

The Israelites went and did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.

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.

Joshua 4:20

Those twelve stones that they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,

Joshua 4:9

(Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood, and they are there to this day.)